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See also:WHETSTONE, See also:GEORGE (1544?-1587?) , See also:English dramatist and author, was the third son of See also:Robert Whetstone (d. 1557). A member of a wealthy See also:family that owned the See also:manor of Walcot at Bernack, near See also:Stamford, he appears to have inherited a small patrimony which he speedily dissipated, and he complains bitterly of the failure of a lawsuit to recover an See also:inheritance of which he had been unjustly deprived. In 1572 he joined an English See also:regiment on active service in the See also:Low Countries, where he met George See also:Gascoigne 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:Churchyard. Gascoigne was his See also:guest near Stamford when he died in 1577, and Whetstone commemorated his friend in a See also:long See also:elegy. His first See also:volume, the Rocke of Regarde (1576), consisted of tales in See also:prose and See also:verse adapted from the See also:Italian, and in 1578 he published The right excellent and famous Historye of Promos and See also:Cassandra, a See also:play in two parts, See also:drawn from the eighty-fifth novel of See also:Giraldi Cinthio's Hecatomithi. To this he wrote an interesting See also:preface addressed to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Fleetwood, See also:recorder of See also:London, with whom he claimed kinship, in which he criticizes the contemporary See also:drama. In 1582 he published his Heptameron of Civill Discourses, a collection of tales which includes The Rare Historie of Promos and Cassandra. From this prose version apparently See also:Shakespeare See also:drew the See also:plot of Measure for Measure, though he was doubtless See also:familiar with the See also:story in its earlier dramatic See also:form. Whetstone accompanied See also:Sir See also:Humphrey See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert on his expedition in 1578-1579, and the next See also:year found him in See also:Italy. The Puritan spirit was now abroad in See also:England, and Whetstone followed its dictates in his prose See also:tract A Mirour for Magestrates (1584), which in a second edition was called A Touchstone for the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
Time. Whetstone did not abuse the See also:stage as some Puritan writers did, but he objected to the performance of plays on Sundays. In 1585 he returned to the See also:army in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and he was See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Zutphen. His other See also:works are a collection of military anecdotes entitled The See also:Honourable Reputation of a Souldier (1585); a See also:political tract, the English Myrror (1586), numerous elegies on distinguished persons, and The Censure of a Loyall Subject (1587). No See also:information about Whetstone is available after the publication of this last See also:book, and it is conjectured that he died shortly afterwards.
End of Article: WHETSTONE, GEORGE (1544?-1587?)
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