Barnaby Rich : a short biography / by Thomas M. Cranfill and Dorothy Hart Bruce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cranfill, Thomas Mabry, author.

Bruce, Dorothy Hart, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.

Rich, Barnabe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 pages)

Place of Publication:

Austin, [Texas] : University of Texas Press, 1953.

Summary:

Soldier, sea captain, freebooter, courtier, writer, reformer, and informer, Barnaby Rich was a man of his time. In the service of Queen Elizabeth, Rich took part in numerous campaigns fraught with hardship and disaster in France, the Low Countries, and Ireland. After twenty years of soldiering, he wrote Riche His Farewell to Militarie Profession, which attracted the attention of the Queen herself, as well as William Shakespeare and many of the lesser among his contemporaries. "I have preferred to be rich rather than to be called so," punned the Captain ruefully on his title pages, for he was usually in want and as often in trouble. The source of both misfortunes was his disdain for dodging a fight, and much that is known of his life comes from unpublished records of legal actions in which he was involved. Rich directed his satire primarily against the sinecures of the Anglican clergy in Ireland and against the papacy. "Sworne man" of both Elizabeth and James, he protested near the end of his life that his assaults with pike and pen were but the promptings of a "true harted subjecte." Born in an age bright with stars, Rich must be considered a "minor" Elizabethan. Therein lies the novelty of this study: it treats the not-so-great, using unpublished court records to enrich our knowledge of Great Britain's grandest era. But the story of the man is not lost in the background of the period. With freshness and charm the present volume disinters Barnaby Rich from the footnote crediting him as Shakespeare's source for the plot of Twelfth Night and fleshes him forth a live Elizabethan.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface and Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Abbreviations

I A Major "Minor Elizabethan

II Out of Essex into English

III From Pike to Pen

IV The Passionate Archbishop and That Rascal Dean Jones

V Rich v. the Archbishop and St. Peter

VI A Fayre Cypress Hatt Band

VII The Service of the Gentleman Is Used Here

VIII A Privat Quarrel about a Kisse?

IX Dim of Sight and Lame of Limbs

Index of Names and Titles

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780292771604

0292771606

9780292771598

0292771592

OCLC:

1280945535