Background
Davenant was born on March 3, 1606 in Oxford, England. He was the son of a wealthy tavern owner, who later became mayor of Oxford. He was the son of Jane Shepherd Davenant and John Davenant.
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Davenant was born on March 3, 1606 in Oxford, England. He was the son of a wealthy tavern owner, who later became mayor of Oxford. He was the son of Jane Shepherd Davenant and John Davenant.
In his early years, after a brief attendance at Lincoln College, Oxford, D'avenant went to London, served various courtiers, and wrote his first occasional poems and tragedies of blood.
After participating in a military campaign on the Continent in 1627, he returned to England, succeeded in winning the patronage of Queen Henrietta Maria, and ultimately became, in 1638, Ben Jonson's successor to the semi-official laureateship.
During the period of the Royalist exile in France, he wrote his unfinished romantic epic, Gondibert (published in 1650), with its important critical preface, and was proscribed by the Parliament for his valiant aid in supplying the King's armies from the Continent.
In 1650 he sailed for the New World with an appointment from Charles II as treasurer of Virginia, but he was intercepted in the Channel by Parliamentary forces, brought back to England, and threatened with execution in the Tower.
He wrote The Siege of Rhodes (1656), the first opera staged in England. After the Restoration, D'avenant was granted a patent to establish the Duke's Playhouse, in which he presented operas, comedies, and tragedies, stressing the new painted scenery that he was instrumental in introducing to the English public theater.
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