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MUNDAY (or MONDAY), ANTHONY (c. 1553-1633) , English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, son of Christopher Monday, a London draper
capital out of the designs of the English Catholics resident in France and Italy. He says that he and his companion, Thomas Nowell, were robbed of all they possessed on the road from Boulogne to Amiens, where they were kindly received by an English priest, who entrusted them with letters to be delivered in Reims. These they handed over to the English ambassador in Paris, where under a false name, as the son of a well-known English Catholic, Munday gained recommendations which secured his reception at the English College in Rome. He was treated with special kindness by the rector , Dr Morris, for the sake of his supposed father. He gives a detailed account of the routine of the place, of the dispute between the English and Welsh students, of the carnival at Rome, and finally of the martyrdom of Richard Atkins (? 1559-1581). He returned to England in 157$-1579, and became an actor again, being a member of the Earl
Munday is accused of having deceived his master Allde, a charge which he refuted by publishing Allde's signed declaration to the contrary, and he is also said to have been hissed off the stage. He was one of the chief
Discoverie of Edmund Campion and his Confederates whereto is added the execution of Edmund Campion, Raphe Sherwin, and Alexander Brian, the first part of which was read aloud from the scaffold
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to 1616, and it is likely that he supplied most of the pageants between 1592 and 16o5, of which no authentic record has been kept. It is by these entertainments of his, which rivalled in success those of Ben Jonson and Middleton, that he won his greatest fame; but of all the achievements of his versatile talent the only one that was noted in his epitaph in St Stephens, Coleman Street, London, where he was buried on the loth of August 1633, was his enlarged. edition (1618) of Stow's Survey of London. In some of his pageants he signs himself " citizen and draper
Of the eighteen plays between the dates of 1584 and 1602 which are assigned to Munday in collaboration with Henry Chettle, Michael Drayton, Thomas Dekker
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spring " and six other lyrics to England's Helicon (ed. Bullen, 1899, p. 15).The completest account of Anthony Munday is T. Seccombe's article in the Diet. Nat. Biog. A life and bibliography are prefixed to the Shakespeare Society s reprint of John a Kent and John a Cumber (ed. J. P. Collier, 1851). His two " Robin Hood " plays were edited by J. P. Collier in Old Plays (1828), and his English Romayne Lyfe was printed in the Harleian Miscellany, vii. 136 seq. (ed. Park, 1811). For an account of his city pageants see F. W. Fairholt, Lord Mayor's Pageants (Percy Soc., No. 38, 1843). End of Article: MUNDAY (or MONDAY), ANTHONY (c. 1553-1633) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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