Samuel Brooke
Dr Samuel Brooke (1575–1631) was a
Life
He was the son of Robert Brooke of York, the brother of Christopher Brooke who appears in George Wither's eclogues under the pastoral name of Cuddie. Samuel Brooke was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was admitted in 1596; he proceeded M.A. 1604, B.D. 1607, and D.D. 1615.[1][2]
He was imprisoned for a short period, by the action of
On 13 June 1618 he became rector of
Works
In 1614 he wrote three Latin plays, which were performed before James I on his visit to the university in that year. The names of the plays were recorded as Scyros, Adelphe, and Melanthe.[2] Adelphe derives from La Sorella by Giambattista della Porta.[3] A central character in Melanthe is Nicander, the loutish heir of a rich father, who is laughed at and kicked around by the heroine Ermilla, before she finally decides to accept him as her husband.[4] The play also contains a chorus of dancing satyrs.[5]
Manuscripts
- Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B. 15. 13. 'De Natura & Ordine divinæ Prædestinationis in Ecclesiâ, vel intra Ecclesiam Dei.'[7]
- Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 44, item 16. 'De Auxilio Divinæ Gratiæ Exercitatio theologica.'[8]
References
- ^ "Brooke, Samuel (BRK592S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d e Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3555. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ J.W. Bennett ed., Studies in the English Renaissance Drama (1961), pp. 220-4
- ^ J. W. Bennett ed., Studies in the English Renaissance Drama (1961), p. 222
- ^ Brooke, Samuel (1928). Bolton, Joseph S. G. (ed.). Melanthe: A Latin pastoral play of the early seventeenth century (Yale studies in English 79 ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press.
- ^ James, M. R. "The James Catalogue Of Western Manuscripts". Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Janus". Cambridge University Library. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
Further reading
- Samuel Brooke: Adelphe; Scyros; Melanthe. Prepared with an Introduction by Götz Schmitz. (1991). Renaissance Latin Drama in England Second Series: Plays Associated with the University of Cambridge, vol. XV.
- PRO, SP Dam. 16/177, fo. 13r (13 December 1630); BL, MS Harleian 1219, fo. 305v.
- The Master of Trinity at Trinity College, Cambridge
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Brooke, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.