The Dolphin's Back
in association with Globe Education

SAMUEL DANIEL
 & JOHN DANYEL 

BRITTEN THEATRE
Royal College of Music

5.30pm Thursday 10 September 2015

A Public Evening of Poetry and Music

With actors Bella Heesom & Alan Cox
   directed by James Wallace
      &
with musicians Roberta Diamond, Hugo Hymas
         & concert leader Sam Brown

Producers - John Pitcher and Yasmin Arshad

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) was a poet, playwright, and historian

He first found fame in 1592 with his sonnet cycle Delia. He had been taught to write verse by The Countess of Pembroke, and two years later he wrote his Tragedy of Cleopatra, influencing Shakespeare's later play

In 1603 he became Master of the Queen's Revels, writing the first of the Jacobean Court masques, defining the genre, and in whose footsteps Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones were to follow

His brother, John Danyel, ranks among the best Elizabethan composers, and wrote songs and lute pieces as beautiful as Dowland's finest compositions

This was the first time the Daniel brothers’ work had been looked at collaboratively and performed live together

This event was part of
Samuel Daniel, Poet and Historian
   presented by
UCL’s Centre for Early Modern Exchanges
The English Faculty at Oxford University
St John's College Oxford
The Royal College of Music

BELLA HEESOM

ALAN COX