Значение слова MUNDAY в Литературной энциклопедии

MUNDAY

ANTHONY (1553-1633).-Dramatist, poet, and pamphleteer, _s._ of a draper in London, appears to have had a somewhat chequered career. He went to Rome in 1578, and _pub._ _The Englyshe Romayne Life_, in which he gives descriptions of rites and other matters fitted to excite Protestant feeling; and he appears to have acted practically as a spy upon Roman Catholics. He had a hand in 18 plays, of which four only are extant, including two on _Robert, Earl of Huntingdon_ (_Robin Hood_) (1598), and one on the _Life of Sir John Oldcastle_. He was ridiculed by Ben Jonson in _The Case is Altered_. He was also a ballad-writer, but nothing of his in this kind survives, unless _Beauty sat bathing in a Spring_ be correctly attributed to him. He also wrote city pageants, and translated popular romances, including _Palladino of England_, and _Amadis of Gaule_. He was made by Stow the antiquary (_q.v._) his literary executor, and _pub._ his _Survey of London_ (1618).

Литературная энциклопедия. 2012