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Munday, Anthony
Munday, Anthony (1560–1633), English hack-writer, pamphleteer, ballad-maker, translator, and playwright. His first extant play, Fedele and Fortunio (1584), translated from the Italian, may have been used by Shakespeare in writing Much Ado about Nothing (1598), while parts of his play on a contest between two wizards, John a Kent and John a Cumber (c.1590), probably suggested the Bottom scenes in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595). Munday is known to have collaborated in several plays, now lost, about Robin Hood and Sir John Oldcastle, and worked mainly for Henslowe. He certainly had a hand in the fragmentary Sir Thomas More, since most of the extant manuscript is in his handwriting.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Munday, Anthony." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Munday, Anthony." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-MundayAnthony.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Munday, Anthony." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-MundayAnthony.html |
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Munday, Anthony
Munday, Anthony (1560–1633), hack-writer, wrote or collaborated in a number of plays, and was ridiculed by Jonson as Antonio Balladino in The Case is Altered. Munday wrote ballads, and as ‘Shepheard Tonie’ contributed several poems to Englands Helicon (1600). He also translated popular romances, including the Palmerin cycle (1581–1602), Palladine of England (1588), and Amadis of Gaul (?1590), and wrote City pageants from 1605.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Munday, Anthony." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Munday, Anthony." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-MundayAnthony.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Munday, Anthony." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-MundayAnthony.html |
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