critical account of poems and plays by Shakespeare. Francis Meres was born in 1565 at Kirton Meres in the parish of Kirton, Lincolnshire. He was educated...

Look up meres in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meres may refer to: Mere (lake), a type of body of water, often one that is broad in relation to its...

Francis Mears was an English priest in the 17th-century. Meres was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1632. Meres was Headmaster...

at the Inns of Court for Queen Elizabeth I in the mid-1590s. 1598 – Francis Meres published his quarto Palladis Tamia, which was entered on the Stationers'...

English poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Meres' own day, and compares each with a classical author. While Meres is considerably indebted to George Puttenham's...

mentioned with Thomas Achlow and George Peele as leading London poets. Francis Meres, in his Palladis Tamia (1598), describes Roydon as worthy of comparison...

two unauthorised sonnets appeared in The Passionate Pilgrim in 1599, Francis Meres had referred in 1598 to Shakespeare's "sugred Sonnets among his private...

over the next few years. In his Palladis Tamia, published in 1598, Francis Meres says Marlowe was "stabbed to death by a bawdy serving-man, a rival of...

also produced copy for Henslowe. While mentioned as a dramatist by Francis Meres in 1598, most existing information on his dramatic career is derived...

to a known Shakespeare play. The first mention of the play occurs in Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598) in which he lists a dozen Shakespeare...

contained the ancient manor of Kirton Meres, the seat of Roger de Kirton (d. 1383), alias de Kirketon / Roger de Meres / Meeres), a Justice of the Common...

was "latelie Acted by the Lo: Chamberleyne his servantes". In 1598, Francis Meres published his Palladis Tamia, a survey of English literature from Chaucer...

became an important playwright, but little is known about his activity. Francis Meres placed him among "our best for tragedy" and Heywood elsewhere called...

before 1600. It seems likely this play was written after 1598, since Francis Meres did not mention it in his Palladis Tamia. Although twelve plays are...

also a Neo-Latin poet. Gager is mentioned alongside Shakespeare in Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia or Wits Treasury in the section 'A Comparative discourse...

was published between 1598 and 1600, a publication by Francis Meres comes into play. In 1598, Meres published Palladis Tamia; Wits Treasury with a chapter...

is believed to be between 1596 and 1598. The play was mentioned by Francis Meres in 1598, so it must have been familiar on the stage by that date. The...

play is not mentioned in the list of Shakespeare's plays published by Francis Meres in 1598. Based on these two points, as well as several contemporary...

the sports drama All American Palladis Tamia, a 1598 book written by Francis Meres Tamias, a genus of chipmunks This disambiguation page lists articles...

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and on leaving the university in 1576 he went to London. In 1598, Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia mentions him with Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser...

the Stratford citizen was also an actor under his own name. In 1598, Francis Meres named Shakespeare as a playwright and poet in his Palladis Tamia, referring...

performance during Shakespeare's lifetime, although due to its inclusion in Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia, we know the play had definitely been performed by 1598...

Shakespeare. Love's Labour's Won – A late sixteenth-century writer, Francis Meres, and a bookseller's list both include this title among Shakespeare's...

Chronicles noted that Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia compares 17 named English poets to 16 named classical poets. Writing that Meres was obsessed with numerology...

Italian engraver (d. 1615) George Kirbye, English composer (d. 1634) Francis Meres, English churchman and author (d. 1647) María Pita, Spanish heroine...

De Furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto Duce in 1575. Lyne is mentioned by Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia (1598) as among the leading painters of the time...

In the Second World War: Willward Alexander Sandys-Clarke 1641–1666: Francis Meres 1840–1853: Henry Holden 1853–1887: Edward Thring (1821–1887) 1887–1907:...

mistakes of Richard Puttenham in his Arte of English Poesie (1589), and of Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia (1598), who both attributed to an Edward Ferrers...

Sheepheardes and Nymphes" is especially pointed out as "very rare poetrie." Francis Meres, in 1598 ("Palladis Tamia," fo. 283, b.), enumerating many of the best...