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See also:TATE, See also:NAHUM (1652-1715) , See also:English poet See also:laureate and playwright, was See also:born in See also:Dublin in 1652. He was the son of Faithful Teate (as the name was spelt), who wrote a See also:quaint poem on, the Trinity entitled Ter Tria. Nahum Tate was educated at Trinity See also:College, Dublin, graduating B.A. in 1672. He published a See also:volume of poems in See also:London in 1677, and became a See also:regular writer for the See also:stage. See also:Brutus of See also:Alba, or The En-chanted Lovers (1678), a tragedy dealing with See also:Dido and See also:Aeneas, and The Loyal See also:General (168o), were followed by a See also:series of adaptations from Elizabethan dramas. In See also:Shakespeare's See also:Richard II. he altered the names of the personages, and changed the See also:text so that every See also:scene, to use his own words, was " full of respect to See also:Majesty and the dignity of courts"; but in spite of these precautions The Sicilian Usurper (1681) was suppressed on the third See also:representation on See also:account of a possible See also:political See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation. See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Lear (1687) was fitted with a happy ending in a See also:marriage between Cordelia and See also:Edgar; and See also:Coriolanus became the Ingratitude of a See also:Commonwealth (1682). From See also:John See also:Fletcher he adapted The See also:Island Princess (1687); from See also:Chapman and See also:Marston's Eastward Ho he derived the Cuckold's Haven (1685); from John See also:Webster's See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Devil he took Injured Love, or The Cruel See also:Husband (pr. 1707); and See also:Sir See also:Aston Cockayne's Trappolin suppos'd a See also:Prince he imitated in See also:Duke and no Duke (1685). Tate's name is chiefly connected with these mangled versions of other men's plays . and with the famous New Version of the See also:Psalms of See also:David (1696), in which he collaborated with See also:Nicholas See also:Brady. A supplement was licensed in 1703. Some of these See also:hymns, notably " While Shepherds watched," and " As pants the See also:hart," rise above the general dull level, and are said to be Tate's See also:work.
Tate was commissioned by See also:Dryden to write the Second See also:Part of See also:Absalom and Achitophel. The portraits of Elkanah See also:Settle and See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Shadwell, however, are attributed to Dryden, who probably also put the See also:finishing touches to the poem. Of his numerous poems the most See also:original is See also:Panacea, a poem on See also:Tea <1700). In spite of his consistent Toryism, he succeeded Shadwell as poet laureate in 1692. He died within the precincts of the See also:Mint, See also:Southwark, where he had taken See also:refuge from his creditors, on the 12th of See also:August 1715.
End of Article: TATE, NAHUM (1652-1715)
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