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
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