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[Up] [Dromo's Den] William Cartwright Biography CARTWRIGHT,
William (1611-43). An English poet and divine, born at Northway, near
Tewkesbury. He graduated M.A. at Christ Church, Oxford (1635), took orders,
became precentor of Salisbury Cathedral, and junior proctor of Oxford (1643),
and died a few months later (November 29). Cartwright was much beloved by many
friends, among whom was King Charles I. He is a good example of a once large
class of "florid and seraphical. preachers." He wrote several plays,
of which the Ordinary, ridiculing the
Puritans, has considerable interest. His Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with Other Poems were collected by Moseley
(London, 1651). Consult: Ward, English
Poets, vol. ii (London, 1881); Bullen, "William Cartwright," in Dictionary
of National Biography, vol. ix (1887), an excellent article; Ward, History
of English Dramatic Literature (1899). The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. IV (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 613. |