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Thomas Coryat (also Coryate) (c. 1577 – 1617) was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally remembered for two volumes of writings he left regarding his travels, often on foot, through Europe and parts of Asia.
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The book is an account of a journey undertaken, much of it on foot, in 1608 through France, Italy, Germany, and other European countries. Coryat conceived of the 1,975-mile (3,175 km) voyage to Venice and back in order to write the subsequent travelogue dedicated to Henry, Prince of Wales, at whose court he was regarded as somewhat of a buffoon and jester, rather than the wit and intellectual ...
Thomas James, librarian [37] Thomas Coryat, travel writer, court jester to James I [38] Henry Marten, Judge of Admiralty [39] Thomas Ryves, lawyer [40] Richard Zouch, judge and politician [41] Edward Nicholas, statesman [42] The roundhead Nathaniel Fiennes, a descendant of William of Wykeham
Thomas Coryat, (c. 1577–1617), English traveller Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels (1611) [1] Pedro Páez, (1564–1622), Spanish jesuit missionary in Ethiopia History of Ethiopia (1620), includes the first account of one of the sources of the Nile River ever written by a European.
Scholars have dated the play to the 1616–18 period, based in part on an allusion in the play to "the Ulyssean traveller that sent home his image riding upon elephants to the great Mogul" (Act III, scene i). This is a reference to Thomas Coryat's Greetings from the Court of the Great Mogul, which was published in London in 1616. The play ...
Cooke's play was performed by Queen Anne's Men at the Red Bull Theatre in 1611. The play satirises Coryat's Crudities, the travelogue by Thomas Coryat published in that year. . The company's leading clown, Thomas Greene, played the role of Bubble in the play, and his rendering of Bubble's catch phrase "Tu quoque" (Latin for "you also" or, colloquially, "the same to you"), repeated through the ...
He wrote several more elegies besides and joined with fellow wits in making fun of Thomas Coryat’s Crudities (Poems 1807, pp.11–12). Verse letters indicate the Court circle of royal favourites and their dependents among whom he moved, being addressed to John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough , George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham , and ...