Avenant

The play was a poor thing -- "The Wits," one of D'Avenant's comedies.

Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

D'Avenant's dramas do not rise much above mediocrity, but they are considered "exceptionally decorous and moral" for their time.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The first edition of the barbarous revision was first published in 1670, after D'Avenant's death, and Dryden wrote a preface, in which he prudently remarked: "I do not set a value on anything I have written in this play but [_i. e._, except] out of gratitude to the memory of Sir William Davenant, who did me the honour to join me with him in the alteration of it."

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892

Gossip which was current in Oxford throughout the seventeenth century, and was put on record before the end of it by more than one scholar of the university, establishes the fact that Shakespeare on his annual journeys between London and Stratford-on-Avon was in the habit of staying at the elder D'Avenant's Oxford hostelry.

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892

D'Avenant's reconstructions of _The Tempest_ and _Macbeth.

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892

He saw D'Avenant's version of it no less than eight times, with ever-increasing enjoyment.

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892

D'Avenant's devotion did much for Shakespeare's memory; but it stimulated others to do even more for the after-generations who wished to know the whole truth about Shakespeare's life.

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892

Buckinghamshire, who survived D'Avenant nearly half a century, said that he had examined the epistle while it was in D'Avenant's keeping.

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892

The great actor of the Restoration, Thomas Betterton, was D'Avenant's close associate in his last years.

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892

D'Avenant's father, a melancholy person who was never known to laugh, long kept at Oxford the Crown Inn in Carfax.

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892