George Whetstone
George Whetstone (baptized 1550 ; † 1587 ) was an English playwright and author .
Life
George Whetstone came from a wealthy family from Barnack near Stamford . However, he received only a small inheritance that was soon used up. In 1572 he entered the military and served in a regiment in the Netherlands. There he also met George Gascoigne and Thomas Churchyard (* around 1520; † 1604).
In 1576 he published his first work, Rocke of Regards , prose and verse tales taken from Italian. He accompanied Sir Humphrey Gilbert on his expedition (1578/79) and stayed in Italy in 1580. In 1585 he returned to the military and took part in the battle of Zutphen .
He was a leading literary critic of the Elizabethan era . His two-part comedy The right, excellent and famous Historye of Promos and Cassandra (1578) provided one of the literary models for Shakespeare's play Maß für Maß .
Works
- Rock of Regards (1576)
- The right, excellent and famous Historye of Promos and Cassandra (1578)
- Heptameron of Civil Discourses (1582)
- A Mirour for Magestrates (1584)
- The Honorable Reputation of a Souldier (1585)
- English Myrror (1586)
- The Censure of a Loyall Subject (1587)
literature
- Thomas C. Izard: George Whetstone. Mid-Elizabethan Gentleman of Letters. New York 1942
- Smith, G. Gregory (ed.): Elizabethan Critical Essays. Edited with an Introduction by G. Gregory Smith. 2 volumes. Oxford University Press, 1959 (reprint of the 1904 edition)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Ulrich Suerbaum : The Shakespeare Guide. 3rd rev. Edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-15-020395-8 , p. 180. See also Ina Schabert (Ed.): Shakespeare-Handbuch. Time, man, work, posterity. 5th, revised and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-520-38605-2 , p. 448.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Whetstone, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English playwright and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized 1550 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1587 |