George Gascoigne

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George Gascoigne

George Gascoigne (born around 1525 in Cardington , Bedfordshire , † October 7, 1577 in Bernack near Stamford , Lincolnshire ) was an English poet.

Gascoigne studied law at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge . He was then probably a member of the Middle Temple , his membership in Gray's Inn is documented from 1555. From 1557 to 1559 he was a member of the House of Commons for Bedford . At first he lived in difficult economic circumstances, at times he even had to be imprisoned because of his debts. It was only after he married a wealthy widow that his financial situation stabilized.

At the beginning of the Eighty Years' War Gascoigne hired himself out as a mercenary in the Netherlands , who were then supported by England. He became a great admirer of Wilhelm I , who stood up for him personally several times. During the evacuation of Valkenburg he was captured, from which he was released to England in 1574. Gascoigne wrote two reports about his experiences that were published.

The majority of his poems and masques were published in the subsequent period up to his death in 1577.

Works

  • The arrangement of a lover
  • A Strange Passion of a Lover
  • Supposes, English comedy in blank verse
  • A Hundredth Sundrie Flowres (GW Pigman (Editor)). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • The Complete Works of George Gascoigne (Cambridge English Classics; John W. Cunliffe (Editor)). Greenwood Press 1969.

literature

  • Henning, Richard: George Gascoigne as a translator of Italian poetry . Dissertation, Albertus University Königsberg 1913.
  • Austen, Gillian: George Gascoigne , Woodbridge [u. a.]: Brewer, 2008, (Studies in Renaissance Literature; 24), ISBN 978-1-84384-157-9

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