| 词条 | Edward Howard (playwright) |
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BiographyEdward Howard was christened on 2 November 1624, at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Howard had a reputation as an exacting and difficult author. In their famous satire The Rehearsal, the Duke of Buckingham and his collaborators mocked Howard for being demanding and contentious during the actors' rehearsals of his plays.[3] Howard himself acknowledged his reputation; he wrote a Prologue to his Man of Newmarket in which the actors Robert Shatterell and Joseph Haynes criticize Howard for not allowing cuts or improvisations in his dramas.[4] Howard complained that when the actors in his Six Days' Adventure encountered a hostile audience response, they neglected "that diligence required to their parts."[5] He has been described as "the arrogant, touchy Edward Howard."[6] He "seems to have struck his contemporaries as the epitome of the literary fop...."[7] In a quarrel over the Change of Crowns matter, actor and fellow playwright John Lacy reportedly called Howard "more a fool than a poet." Howard slapped Lacy's face with his glove, and Lacy cracked Howard over the head with his cane. Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset wrote his Satire on a Conceited Playwright about Edward Howard;[8] Dorset called Howard's poetry "solid nonsense that abides all tests." Thomas Shadwell caricatured Howard as the "poet Ninny" in his first play, The Sullen Lovers (1668). Alexander Pope included a mention of him in The Dunciad, Book 1, line 297. PlaysHis best drama is arguably The Change of Crowns. Samuel Pepys saw it on 15 April 1667, performed by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; in his Diary Pepys called it "the best that I ever saw at that house, being a great play and serious." During the première performance of the play, however, cast member John Lacy improvised some lines that offended King Charles II, who had Lacy incarcerated in response. As a result of the controversy, The Change of Crowns was not published in its own era. Howard's other plays were treated roughly by the critics of the day. Restoration dramatists often reworked the plays of earlier playwrights; "Ned" Howard was accused of relying on work by James Shirley. His five plays are:
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References1. ^{{cite ODNB|id=13892|first=J. P.|last=Vander Motten|title=Howard, Edward}} {{Restoration comedy}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Howard, Edward}}2. ^{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Howard, Edward (fl.1669)}} 3. ^Tiffany Stern, Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007; p. 130 n. 16. 4. ^Stern, p. 174. 5. ^Stern, p. 182. 6. ^Janet M. Todd, The Secret Life of Aphra Behn, Piscataway, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1997; p.136. 7. ^Alfred Harbage, Cavalier Drama, New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1936; reprinted New York, Russell and Russell, 1964; p. 245. 8. ^William Henry Oliphant Smeaton, ed., English Satires, Charleston, SC, BiblioBazaar, 2008; pp. 112-13. 6 : English dramatists and playwrights|1624 births|Howard family (English aristocracy)|1712 deaths|English male dramatists and playwrights|English male poets |
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