Search results
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet, playwright and historian in the late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean eras. He was an innovator in a wide range of literary genres.
SAMUEL DANIEL, an English poet and historian, was the son of a music-master, and was born near Taunton, in Somersetshire, in 1562. In 1579 he was admitted a commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he remained for about three years, and then gave himself up to the unrestrained study of poetry and philosophy.
Dec 16, 2013 · This article discusses current research on the Elizabethan poet and historian Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) and looks at future archival and critical directions for work on him. It sets out details of Daniel’s life in Somerset and offers new evidence of his outlook as a man of letters and the income he made from writing.
Scholars have long suspected that the revisions in the 1607-11 editions of The Tragedie of Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel were made under the influence of Shake-speare. R. H. Case broached the possibility of this influence in 1906, when he listed a number of passages from Daniel which parallel Antony and Cleopatra.' Case's
Samuel Daniel's verse account of The Civil Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York, was first published in 1595 under the title The First Four Books of the Civil Wars. It is written in ottava rima stanzas and draws on classical models to present English history in epic form.
Samuel Daniel | Biography | Quotes | Works | Essays | Online Resources | Renaissance English Literature
People also ask
When did Samuel Daniel write the civil wars?
Who was Samuel Daniel?
Was Samuel Daniel a contemporary?
Who paid Samuel Daniel £40?
Who was Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Who is John Danyel?
Elizabethan poet, Samuel Daniel (1562-1619). I have located just short of one thousand copies of Daniel's books in public and private hands, chiefly in Britain and in the United States, and I have examined over a third of these in person. The findings of this survey will be published in due course, but before then I want to consider a ...
