Markham Gervase

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Cavelarice (1607)

Gervase Markham (* around 1568 in Cottam in Nottinghamshire , † February 3, 1637 in London ) was a British writer and translator.

Life

Gervase (also the spelling "Jervis" occurs) served as a soldier in the Netherlands and Ireland before he devoted himself to writing from around 1593. Robert Gittings assumed that the rival to whom many of William Shakespeare's sonnets allude was Gervase Markham. Gittings also held Markham as the archetype of Don Armado in Love's Labor's Lost . He did this in his 1960 work Shakespeare's Rival .

Works

It is said that Gervase Markham imported the first Arab horse to England. In addition to The Discourse of Horsemanshippe (1593), he wrote other books on horse training: In Cavelarice he devoted a chapter to one of the most famous horses of his time, Morocco , or rather its training. He also wrote The Compleat Horseman and Markham's Master-Piece. Containing All Knowledge Belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse-Leach, Touching the Curing All Diseases in Horses .

His work The English Housewife , edited by Michael R. Best, was reprinted in a 1994 issue of McGill-Queens University Press. In A Way to Get Wealth , he dealt with agriculture and horticulture.

More works by Gervase Markham:

  • The English husbandman (The English compatriot)
  • A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen
  • The Last Fight of 'The Revenge' on Sea
  • The Dumbe Knight
  • The True Tragedy of Herod and Antipater
  • The Teares of the Beloved
  • Marie Magdalenes Teares

Translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Gervase+Markham
  2. ↑ http://www.bridica.com/EBchecked/topic/365771/Gervase-Markham
  3. ↑ http://www.gardenvisit.com/biography/gervase_markham
  4. ^ Markham, Gervase: The English housewife . containing the inward and outward virtues which ought to be in a complete woman ... Ed .: Best, Michael R. Montreal 1998, ISBN 0-7735-1103-2 .
  5. ↑ See the English book text for the Gutenberg project [1]
personal data
SURNAME Markham, Gervase
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1637
Place of death London