Sir charles sedley biography of michael

  • Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701) was a wealthy, well-connected baronet who wrote witty plays and poetry, played tennis with the King, dabbled in.
  • Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (March 1639 – 20 August 1701), was an English noble, dramatist and politician.
  • Po^erity both as a man and a poet.

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    Sir Charles Sedley, 4th baronett (March 1639 - 20 August 1701) was an English poet, playwright, and courtier.[1]

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    Sedley, son and heir of a Kentish baronett, was at Oxford and, coming to the Court of Charles II, became one of the most popular and brilliant members of its dissipated circles. He was the author of 2 tragedies and 3 comedies, now forgotten, though extravagantly lauded in their day, and of some poems and songs, of which the best known are "Phyllis" and "Chloris". His only child was the witty and profligate Catherine Sedley, mistress of James II, who created her Countess of Dorset. Bellamira and The Mulberry Garden, founded respectively on förnamn and Molière, are his best plays. His prose in pamphlets and essays is better than his verse.[2]

    Family[]

    Sedley was the youngest and posthumous son of Sir John Sedley (or Sidley, as the name was properly spelt), baronett, of Southfleet in Kent, where this ancient family had moved it

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    Sir Charles Sedley

    SeC 49

    Copy, headed ‘On Mrs. Mar: Nappe’, subscribed ‘Sr. Ch: sidley’.

    In: A quarto notebook in Latin and English, in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 35 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by Nicholas Crouch (c.1618-90), bursar of Balliol College and notary. Late 17th century.

    Balliol College, Oxford, MS 336, f. 14r.

    SeC 50

    Copy, headed ‘A Copy of vrses to Mrs. M: K: from —’ and ascribed to ‘Char: Sidley’.

    In: A miscellany of academic orations, verse, satires, etc., in Latin and English, iv + 111 leaves, in limp vellum. Compiled by William Doble (1649/50-75), of Trinity College, Oxford. c.1669-74.

    R.C. Hatchwell, sale catalogue No. 23 (1973), item 50.

    Bodleian, MS Don. f. 29, fol. 24r.

    SeC 51

    Copy, headed ‘To Mris Mary Napp’, subscribed ‘Sir Charles Sedley’.

    In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single n

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    Because today is a "travel day" for me, returning home from Colonial Williamsburg, I'm sharing one of my more lurid posts from the past. My five historical novels(written as Susan Holloway Scott) were all set in Restoration England, during the reign of King Charles II (1660 -1685.) This was a very good time for very bad gentlemen, when just about any excess could be explained away if one had a title, or at least was friends with the King.

    Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701) was a wealthy, well-connected baronet who wrote witty plays and poetry, played tennis with the King, dabbled in diplomacy, and eventually became a respectable politician in the House of Commons. He looks innocuous enough, left, but in 1663, he was best known for often being "rhetorically drunk", and also for one particularly bad example of bad-boy-dom, so scandalous that Samuel Johnson was still sputtering over it a century later:

    Sir Charles Sedley, Lord

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