• Nahum Tate (/ˈneɪ.əm ˈteɪt/ NAY-əm TAYT; 1652 – 30 July 1715) was an Anglo-Irish poet, hymnist and lyricist, who became Poet Laureate in 1692. Tate is...
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    friend Nahum Tate took it up and wrote a second part, publishing it the following year, 1682. According to the bookseller Jacob Tonson, Tate was aided...
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    written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain...
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    The History of King Lear (category Plays by Nahum Tate)
    The History of King Lear is an adaptation by Nahum Tate of William Shakespeare's King Lear. It first appeared in 1681, some seventy-five years after Shakespeare's...
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    Nahum Tate. It is listed as number 936 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The exact date of Tate's composition is not known, but the words appeared in Tate...
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  • aria from the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell to a libretto by Nahum Tate. It is included in many classical music textbooks to illustrate the descending...
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    membership required.) Dryden & Malone 1800, p. 206. Hopkins, David (2008). "Tate, Nahum (c.1652–1715)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.)...
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    Spencer, Christopher. Five Restoration Adaptations of Shakespeare. Tate, Nahum. The History of King Lear. University of Illinois Press, 1965. pp. 203–274...
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    the documented one of 1689. It was written to a libretto furnished by Nahum Tate, and performed in 1689 in cooperation with Josias Priest, a dancing master...
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  • which the lyric, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night", by Nahum Tate, may be sung Henry Sherburne House, ca, 1766-1770, in Portsmouth, New...
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  • Thomyris, Queen of Scythia (opera) Nicholas Rowe – The Royal Convert Nahum Tate – Injur'd Love (an adaptation of Webster's The White Devil) Samuel Cobb...
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    Tate and Brady refers to the collaboration of the poets Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, which produced one famous work, New Version of the Psalms of David...
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    were faithful to their original versions, after the derived works by Nahum Tate, Colley Cibber and David Garrick had dominated the stage for over a century...
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    George I, Rowe was made a surveyor of customs, and in 1715 he succeeded Nahum Tate as poet laureate. He was also appointed clerk of the council to the Prince...
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    tragic ending was much criticised and alternative versions were written by Nahum Tate, in which the leading characters survived and Edgar and Cordelia were...
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  • host Nahum Tate (1652–1715), Irish poet, hymnist and lyricist Nahum Tevet (born 1946), Israeli sculptor Nahum Trebitsch (1779–1842), Czech rabbi Nahum Tschacbasov...
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    tender tears. In Henry Purcell's 1688 opera Dido and Aeneas, (librettist Nahum Tate), when Aeneas tells Dido he must abandon her to found Rome on the Italian...
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  • Duke and No Duke by Nahum Tate (1684) Juliana in The Disappointment by Thomas Southerne (1684) Girtred in Cuckold's Haven by Nahum Tate (1685) Nell in The...
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  • Nahum Tate – Coriolanus Thomas Southerne – The Persian Prince, or the Loyal Brother Pedro Calderon de la Barca – Verdadera V parte de comedias Nahum Tate...
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  • artist Minnie Tate (1857–1899), American singer Monk Tate (1934–2020), American racing driver Nahum Tate (1652–1715), Irish poet Nancy Tate, American politician...
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    being T. Shadwell, who originated annual birthday and New Year odes; Nahum Tate; Nicholas Rowe; Laurence Eusden; Colley Cibber; William Whitehead; Thomas...
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    Journey), J. P. Donleavy (The Ginger Man), Thomas Moore (Lalla Rookh), Nahum Tate (The History of King Lear), Dominic West (The Wire), David Benioff (Troy)...
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  • widely known as a tune for "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" by Nahum Tate. The tune is 86.88.666 but is commonly used with lyrics in common metre...
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  • killed, Spenser investigates. "Spenser: The Judas Goat" Joseph L. Scanlan Nahum Tate, Carol Daley, Monte Stettin December 1, 1994 (1994-12-01) Spenser is hired...
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  • Sheep I Watched at Night" "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" words: Nahum Tate, music (UK): "Winchester Old" from Este's Psalter adapted from Christopher...
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  • Ireland. He is sometimes known as Faithful Tate or Faithfull Teate. He was the father of the poet laureate, Nahum Tate. He was the son of Faithful Teate, a...
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    Restoration: a 1680 adaptation at Drury Lane by Nahum Tate was suppressed for its perceived political implications. Tate attempted to mask his version, called The...
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  • La Diane de Fontainebleau Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas (libretto by Nahum Tate, first performed in London) Poul Christian Schindler – Der vereinigte...
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    The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir Text (1605), anonymous http://JackLynch.net/Texts/tatelear.html – The History of King Lear (1681) by Nahum Tate...
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  • including: The History of King Lear, a rewritten version of King Lear by Nahum Tate in 1681 The Yiddish King Lear, an 1892 adaption by Jacob Gordin, set in...
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