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Anthony Munday

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Anthony Munday 1553-1633, English author, b. London. After spending his early years as an actor, he turned to writing. His literary output includes a number of plays (many written in collaboration), poems, pageants, several anti-Catholic pamphlets, and translations of popular French romances (including Amadis de Gaul ). Among his plays are John a Kent and John a Cumber (c.1594) and two on the legend of Robin Hood, The Downfall and Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington (both 1601). Author not available, MUNDAY, ANTHONY. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007... Read more
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... Read more
Munday, Anthony
Munday, Anthony (1560–1633), English hack-writer, pamphleteer, ballad-maker, translator, and playwright. His first extant play, Fedele and...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 ... Read more

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