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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.
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 Coryat, sixteenth century traveller. Henry Cole, Roman Catholic priest [22] Nicholas Udall, Headmaster of Eton and playwright [23] Henry Garnet, complicit in the Gunpowder Plot [24] John White, bishop [25] Nicholas Harpsfield, Roman Catholic apologist [26] Richard Reade, Lord Chancellor of Ireland [27]
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 ...
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He also published Thomas Coryat's famous travelogue Coryat's Crudities (1611), and Thomas Lodge's translation of the works of Seneca (1614, 1620). George Sandys's translation of the Metamorphoses of Ovid came from Stansby's presses in 1626. [7] Stansby continued to publish some works and authors originally issued by his master Windet.
Thomas Cisson; William Clerke (writer) William Clowes (surgeon) Edward Coffin; Thomas Cogan (Tudor physician) Isaac Colfe; Thomas Cooper (bishop) Anthony Cope (author) Jane Cornwallis; William Cornwallis (died 1614) Thomas Coryat; John Cotta; Edward Cradock; Richard Crakanthorpe; Elizabeth Richardson, 1st Lady Cramond; John Crayford; Robert ...