Francis Fane

Francis Fane

Sir Francis Fane, chevalier du Bain, mort vers 1689[1], était un poète et dramaturge anglais ayant vécu sous le règne de Charles II[2].

Biographie

Il était le petit-fils de Francis Fane, 1er comte de Westmorland, son père étant l'un des plus jeunes fils de cet aristocrate. Il résida la plupart du temps à Fulbeck dans le Lincolnshire. Il fut nommé par le duc de Newcastle gouverneur, tout d'abord de Doncaster, puis de Lincoln[2]. Il fut créé chevalier du Bain en 1661 au couronnement de Charles II[3].

Plusieurs de ses contemporains, dont le comte de Rochester[1], Nahum Tate[4] et Gerard Langbaine[2], firent les louanges de son esprit et de ses capacités.

Œuvres

En plus de poèmes, Fane donna trois pièces de théâtre[2] :

  • Love in the Dark, or the Man of Business, comédie en prose et en vers en cinq actes, en 1675, dédié au comte de Rochester
  • Masque for Rochester's Valentinian en 1685
  • Sacrifice, une tragédie en prose et en vers en cinq actes, en 1686

Références

  1. a et b David Farley-Hills, Earl of Rochester, Routledge, 1972, 288 pages, pg 27, ISBN 978-0415134293
  2. a, b, c et d David Erskine Baker et Isaac Reed, Biographia Dramatica, 3 vol., Londres, 1812, Vol I, part. I, pg 223 et 224
  3. Leslie Stevens, Dictionary of National Biography, MacMillan and Co, 1889, Londres, article Francis Fane
  4. Clement Mansfield Ingleby , The Shakespeare allusion-book : a collection of allusions, Oxford university press, 1932, pg xlix

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