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William Cartwright (born December 1611, Ashchurch, Tewkesbury, Eng.—died Nov. 29, 1643, Oxford, Oxfordshire) was a British writer greatly admired in his day as a poet, scholar, wit, and author of plays in the comic tradition of Ben Jonson.
William Cartwright (1 September 1611 – 29 November 1643) was an English poet, dramatist and churchman. Early life. Cartwright was born at Northway, Gloucestershire, the son of William Cartwright of Heckhampton, Gloucestershire. He was educated at the free school of Cirencester and at Westminster School.
William Cartwright was an English poet and dramatist. His poems and plays were collected in Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with Other Poems (Humphrey Moseley) in 1651. He passed away in Oxford, England, on November 29, 1643.
William Cartwright, of Christ Church, Oxford, was one of the best known Oxford poets and dramatists of his time. His greatest triumph was the tragi-comedy The Royal Slave, which was produced at Christ Church, with sets and costumes by Inigo Jones and music by Henry Lawes, before Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria on 30 August 1636.
William Cartwright, 1611–43, English author and divine. An ardent royalist and disciple of Ben Jonson, he had a high reputation as a preacher and author. In addition to his poems, which are now almost entirely forgotten, Cartwright wrote plays, of which The Ordinary (1635?) and The Royal Slave (1636) were the most successful.
William Cartwright. My poems (6) Titles list. To Chloe. THERE are two births; the one when light. First strikes the new awaken’d sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence: When you loved me and I loved you. Then both of us were born anew. Love then to us new souls did give.
A book that contains an annotated edition of the poems of William Cartwright (1611–43), a pre-Civil War poet and friend of Ben Jonson. It also includes an autobiography of Cartwright and a bibliography of his works.
