"Rutter sets both poems, giving Marlowe's words to words tenors & basses, with the women singing Raleigh's reply, and by letting to the men sing over the women changing the feel from question and reply to two people not listening each other. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, known for its first line ""Come live with me and be my love"", is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe and published in 1599 (six years after the poet's death). In addition to being one of the best-known love poems in the English"
"for being naive and juvenile in both his writing style and the Shepherd's thoughts about love. Subsequent responses to Marlowe have come from John Donne, C. Day Lewis, William Carlos Williams, Ogden Nash, W. D. Snodgrass, Douglas Crase and Greg Delanty, and Robert Herrick. In about 1846 the composer William Sterndale Bennett set the words as a four-part madrigal. The poem was adapted for the lyrics of the 1930s-style swing song performed by Stacey Kent at the celebratory ball in the 1995 film of William Shakespeare's ""Richard III"". The line “Come live with me and be my love” was the"
"his eyes. Congreve suffered a carriage accident in late September 1728, from which he never recovered (having probably received an internal injury); he died in London in January 1729, and was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Two of Congreve's phrases from ""The Mourning Bride"" (1697) have become famous, although sometimes misquoted or misattributed to William Shakespeare. Congreve coined another famous phrase in ""Love for Love"" (1695): William Congreve William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration period. He is known for his clever, satirical dialogue and influence on"
"Thomas Heywood Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. He is best known for his masterpiece ""A Woman Killed with Kindness"", a domestic tragedy, which was first performed in 1603 at the Rose Theatre by the Worcester's Men company. He was a prolific writer, claiming to have had ""an entire hand or at least a maine finger in two hundred and twenty plays"", although only a fraction of his work has survived. Few details of Heywood's life have been documented with"
"Englands Helicon Englands Helicon is an anthology of Elizabethan pastoral poems compiled by John Flasket, and first published in 1600. There was an enlarged edition in 1614. The poets involved cannot all be identified, since there are a number of poems marked as 'anonymous': they do include Edmund Bolton, William Byrd, Henry Chettle, Michael Drayton, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Anthony Munday, George Peele, Walter Raleigh, Henry Constable, William Shakespeare, Edward de Vere, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Wootton, William Smith. The most celebrated poem is Marlowe's 'Come live with me and be my love'. This and several other lyrics have"
"put this question, fruitlessly, To everyone I knew, ""What would you do, if you were me, To prove that you were you?"" Our close resemblance turned the tide Of my domestic life, For somehow, my intended bride Became my brother's wife. In fact, year after year the same Absurd mistakes went on, And when I died, the neighbors came And buried brother John! Henry Sambrooke Leigh Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837–1883) was a writer and playwright. Leigh, son of James Mathews Leigh, was born in London on 29 March 1837. At an early age he engaged in literary pursuits. From time"
"Thomas Lovell Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes (30 June 1803 – 26 January 1849) was an English poet, dramatist and physician. Born in Clifton, Bristol, England, he was the son of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna, sister of Maria Edgeworth. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Oxford. He published in 1821 ""The Improvisatore"", which he afterwards endeavoured to suppress. His next venture, a blank-verse drama called ""The Bride's Tragedy"" (1822), was published and well reviewed, and won for him the friendship of Barry Cornwall. Beddoes' work shows a constant preoccupation with death. In"
"la justice mettre le nez dans nos draps"" (""The Oscar Wilde Affair, or, On the Danger of Allowing Justice to put its Nose in our Sheets"") by , a French religious historian. Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish"
"William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the ""Bard of Avon"". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire."
"people. William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the ""Bard of Avon"". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon,"
"Henry Porter (playwright) Henry Porter (died June 1599) was an English dramatist who is known for one surviving play, ""The Two Angry Women of Abington"", and for the manner of his death; he was stabbed by another playwright. Very little is known about Henry Porter's life beyond the entries in the diary of Philip Henslowe the theatre manager. He is described as a ""gentleman"" and a ""poor scholar"", and as the play is set in Abingdon, near Oxford, and shows knowledge of the area around Oxford it is assumed he studied there. Attempts to plausibly connect him with the records"
"Colley Cibber Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir ""Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber"" (1740) describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style. He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Robert Lowe and Alexander Pope, among others, to criticise his ""miserable mutilation"" of ""crucified Molière [and] hapless Shakespeare"". He regarded himself as first and foremost an actor and had great popular success in comical fop parts, while as"
"St. John Greer Ervine St. John Greer Ervine (28 December 1883 – 24 January 1971) was an Irish author, writer, critic and dramatist. He was born in Belfast, Ireland but moved to London while in his teens. His first play, ""Mixed Marriage"", was produced at the Abbey Theatre in 1911. In June 1913, he was standing beside Emily Davison at The Derby and witnessed her being fatally injured by King George V's horse. Ervine served in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during World War One, and suffered an injury that resulted in the amputation of one of his legs. He also"
"Nicholas Owen (incorrectly called ""Hugh Owen"" in the book) died on the rack in 1606. Come Rack! Come Rope! Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, when being or harbouring a priest was considered treason and was punishable with death, it tells the story of two young lovers who give up their chance of happiness together, choosing instead to face imprisonment and martyrdom, so that God's will may be done. The"
"Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (; baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists. A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May 1593. No reason was given for it, though it was thought to"
"Abide with Me ""Abide with Me"" is a Christian hymn by Scottish Anglican Henry Francis Lyte most often sung to English composer William Henry Monk's tune entitled ""Eventide"". Written in Crossabeg, Wexford, Ireland in Artramon House. Lyte wrote the poem in 1847 and set it to music while he lay dying from tuberculosis; he survived only a further three weeks after its completion. The author of the hymn, Henry Francis Lyte, was an Anglican priest and vicar of All Saints' Church in Brixham, England. He was a curate in Wexford for three years – from 1815 to 1818. For most"
"and depravity. Thomas Overbury Sir Thomas Overbury (baptized 1581 – 14 September 1613) was an English poet and essayist, also known for being the victim of a murder which led to a scandalous trial. His poem ""A Wife"" (also referred to as ""The Wife""), which depicted the virtues that a young man should demand of a woman, played a large role in the events that precipitated his murder. Thomas Overbury was born at Compton Scorpion, near Ilmington in Warwickshire, a son of the marriage of Nicholas Overbury, of Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucester, and Mary Palmer. In the autumn of 1595, he became"
"is shot to death by a man in the hire of Henry I, Duke of Guise, leader of the Catholic League, an event which precipitates the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in August 1572. William Shakespeare wrote ""The Life and Death of King John"" (1596), ""Henry V"" (1599), ""Henry VI, part 1"" (1592), ""Henry VI, part 2"" (1591), and ""Henry VI, part 3"" (1591), based on events during the reigns of John of England, king from 1199 to 1216, Henry V of England, king from 1413 to 1422, Henry VI of England, king from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to"
"quotes from Habington’s poem ‘To My Honoured Friend, Sir Ed. P. Knight’: “Direct your eye sight inward, and you’ll find A thousand regions in your mind Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be Expert in home-cosmography”. William Habington William Habington (November 4, 1605 – November 30, 1654) was an English poet. Habington was born at Hindlip Hall, Worcestershire, and belonged to a well-known Catholic family. His father, Sir Thomas Habington, an antiquary and historical scholar, had been implicated in the plots on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots; his uncle, Sir Edward Habington, was beheaded in 1586 on the charge of"
"famous playwright, the book was adapted for the stage by Kenny Miller in 2007. Miller also transformed and directed Welsh's first novel, ""The Cutting Room"", into a stage production. The play was produced by Glasgay! and Tron Theatre in Glasgow. Tamburlaine Must Die Tamburlaine Must Die is a novella written by Louise Welsh, which imagines the last days of Christopher Marlowe's life in 1593. The novella was published in 2004 by Canongate Books. This novella is set in a plague-ridden London in 1593. Someone calling himself ""Tamburlaine"", the name of the hero in one of Marlowe's most famous plays, has"
"Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at"
"John Keats John Keats (; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He"
"George Crabbe George Crabbe ( ; 24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and people. In the 1770s, Crabbe began his career as a doctor's apprentice, later becoming a surgeon. In 1780, he travelled to London to make a living as a poet. After encountering serious financial difficulty and being unable to have his work published, he wrote to the statesman and author Edmund Burke for assistance. Burke was impressed enough by"
"musical settings extant, in this case by William Corkine. Englands Helicon Englands Helicon is an anthology of Elizabethan pastoral poems compiled by John Flasket, and first published in 1600. There was an enlarged edition in 1614. The poets involved cannot all be identified, since there are a number of poems marked as 'anonymous': they do include Edmund Bolton, William Byrd, Henry Chettle, Michael Drayton, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Anthony Munday, George Peele, Walter Raleigh, Henry Constable, William Shakespeare, Edward de Vere, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Wootton, William Smith. The most celebrated poem is Marlowe's 'Come live with me and"
"Richard Lovelace Richard Lovelace (pronounced , homophone of ""loveless"") (9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War. His best known works are ""To Althea, from Prison"", and ""To Lucasta, Going to the Warres"". Richard Lovelace was born on 9 December 1617. His exact birthplace is unknown, and may have been Woolwich, Kent, or Holland. He was the oldest son of Sir William Lovelace and Anne Barne Lovelace. He had four brothers and three sisters. His father was from a"
"and all three parts of the ""Henry VI"" trilogy which most scholars believe were written by 1591, seven years before ""Palladis Tamia"". In the ""Comparative Discourse"" section Meres describes the ""tragicall death"" of ""our tragicall poet"" Christopher Marlowe who ""was stabd to death by a bawdy seruing man, a riuall of his in his lewde loue."" This passage implied that Marlowe had been killed in a fight over a lover, though the word ""rival"" can also mean ""companion"", perhaps implying that the serving man himself was the lover. It was the second published reference to Marlowe's death, following Thomas Beard's"
"O.S.A., John's brother. On 31 January 1889 John Locke died at the early age of 42 years. John Locke was a prolific writer of short stories as well as a number of full-length novels. After joining the staff of the ""Celtic Monthly"" Locke wrote what is considered his finest full-length novel, ""The Shamrock and Palmetto"". He followed this with an historical novel ""Ulick Grace: A Tale of the Tithes"". However, he is today best remembered for one of his poems, ""Dawn on the Irish Coast""[2] also known as the ""Emigrants Anthem"". The poem was set to music in 1896 by"
"Matthew Locke (composer) Matthew Locke (c. 1621 – August 1677) was an English Baroque composer and music theorist. Locke was born in Exeter and later trained in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, under Edward Gibbons, the brother of Orlando Gibbons. At the age of eighteen Locke travelled to the Netherlands, possibly converting to Roman Catholicism at the time. Locke, with Christopher Gibbons (the son of Orlando), composed the score for ""Cupid and Death,"" the 1653 masque by Caroline-era playwright James Shirley. Their score for that work is the sole surviving score for a dramatic work from that era. Locke was"
"that the latter may refer to Shakespeare. If so, and if the poem is autobiographical, it implies that Willobie was in love with a woman who had been previously involved with Shakespeare. Henry Willobie Henry Willobie (or Willoughby) (1575? – 1596?) is the ostensible author of a 1594 verse novella called ""Willobie His Avisa"" (in modern spelling, ""Willoughby's Avisa""), a work that is of interest primarily because of its possible connection with William Shakespeare's life and writings. Henry Willobie was the second son of a Wiltshire gentleman of the same name. He matriculated from St John's College, Oxford in December"
"John Lyly John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie; ; c. 1553 or 1554 – November 1606) was an English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier, best known during his lifetime for his books ""Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit"" (1578) and ""Euphues and His England"" (1580), and perhaps best remembered now for his plays. Lyly's mannered literary style, originating in his first books, is known as ""euphuism"". John Lyly was born in Kent, England, in 1553/1554, to Peter Lyly (d. 1569) and his wife, Jane Burgh (or Brough), of Burgh Hall in the North Riding of Yorkshire. The first of eight children, he"
"regime collapsed and he fled to Wales, where he was captured in November. The king was forced to relinquish his crown in January 1327 in favour of his 14-year-old son, Edward III, and he died in Berkeley Castle on 21 September, probably murdered on the orders of the new regime. Edward's relationship with Gaveston inspired Christopher Marlowe's 1592 play ""Edward II"", along with other plays, films, novels and media. Many of these have focused on the possible sexual relationship between the two men. Edward's contemporaries criticised his performance as king, noting his failures in Scotland and the oppressive regime of"
"Nicholas Skeres Nicholas Skeres (March 1563 – c. 1601) was an Elizabethan con-man and government informer—i.e. a ""professional deceiver""—and one of the three ""gentlemen"" who were with the poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe when he was killed in Deptford in May 1593. Together with another of the men there, Robert Poley, he had played a part in the discovery of the Babington plot against the life of the Queen in 1586, and at the time of Marlowe's death was engaged in a money-lending swindle with the third of them, Marlowe's reported killer Ingram Frizer. Skeres was born the second son"
"Michael Hastings (playwright) Michael Gerald Hastings (2 September 1938 – 19 November 2011) was a British playwright, screenwriter, and occasional novelist and poet. He is best known for his 1984 stage play and 1994 screenplay about the poet T.S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood, ""Tom & Viv"". Hastings was born in London, UK. His early plays (""Don't Destroy Me"" (1956), ""Yes And After"" (1957)) reflected the influence of the Angry Young Men movement and his brief involvement with the circle surrounding Colin Wilson. He later enjoyed mainstream West End success with ""Gloo Joo"" (1978), a farce about a West"