Lodowick Carlell
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| Born | 1602 |
| Died | 1675 (aged 72–73) |
| Occupation(s) | Courtier, playwright |
| Spouse | Joan Palmer |
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Lodowick Carlell (1602–1675), also Carliell or Carlile, was a seventeenth-century English
Courtier
Carlell's ancestry was Scottish. He was the son of Herbert Carlell of Bridekirk in Dumfriesshire, and the third of four brothers. He was not educated at university, though he did produce translations from French and Spanish during his lifetime; he probably had the informal though not always contemptible education of a courtier, which he was from about the age of 15.
In his extra-literary life, Carlell was a courtier and royal functionary; he held the offices of Gentleman of the Bows to King
He maintained his post at Richmond Park throughout the
Playwright
Carlell began his dramatic career by the late 1620s. His early plays were acted by the
His extant plays are: The Deserving Favourite (1629),[3] The Fool Who Would be a Favourite (circa 1637)[3] or The Discreet Lover (his most popular play),[3] Osmond the Great Turk, or The Noble Servant (1638),[3] Arviragus and Philicia, parts 1 and 2 (1639), The Passionate Lovers, Parts 1 and 2 (1655), and Heraclius, Emperor of the East (1664), the last a translation of the 1647 play by Pierre Corneille.
Some critics have judged his plays to be significant in the evolution of serious drama in the 17th century, from the
Personal life
In 1626 he married
The couple had accommodation at Petersham Lodge.[1] They moved to Covent Garden in 1654[6] but returned to Petersham two years later.[7] They had two children, James (who was married to Ellen) and Penelope (married to John Fisher, a lawyer of the Middle Temple).[8]
Later years
Carlell continued in royal service into the
Lodowick died in 1675 and was buried on 21 August in
See also
- Match Me in London, a play written by Thomas Dekker and dedicated to Carlell
Notes
- ^ a b McDowall, David (1996). Richmond Park: The Walker's Historical Guide. David McDowall. p. 47.
- ^ Toynbee, Margaret; Isham, Gyles (1955). "Lodowick Carlell". Notes and Queries. 2: 204.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8108-6762-8.
- ^ Allardyce Nicoll, quoted in Logan and Smith, p. 229.
- ISBN 9780203403907.
- ^ JSTOR 871403.
- ^ required.)
- ^ Gray, Charles H (1905). "Lodowick Carliell; his life, a discussion of his plays, and The deserving favourite, a tragi-comedy reprinted from the original edition of 1629". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
References
- Gray, Charles Henry. Lodowick Carlell: His Life, A Discussion of His Plays, and "The Deserving Favorite". Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1905.
- Modern Language Association of America, 1936.
- Logan, Terence P., and Denzell S. Smith, eds., The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama, Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1978.
- Knight, John Joseph (1887). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
External links
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