OVERBURY, SIR THOMAS

1581–1613, English author and courtier. He was a friend and adviser to Robert Carr, an Oxford acquaintance. The two quarreled violently when Overbury disapproved of Carr's marriage to Frances Howard, divorced wife of the earl of Essex. Overbury's hostility was so marked that the Howard family brought pressure to bear, and James I had Overbury imprisoned in the Tower, where he was slowly poisoned. Carr and Frances Howard were convicted of his murder, but their lives were spared by the king. Overbury was a notable writer of brief informal essays describing a type or an individual. His best-known sketch in verse, A Wife (1614), outlines his conception of the ideal wife.

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books on: Overbury Sir Thomas  - 346 results

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The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia: Examined and Discussed by the Late Edward George Harman, C. B. (With a Chapter on Thomas Lodge)
Book by Edward George Harman; C. Palmer, 1924
Subjects: Bacon, Francis--1561-1626, Lodge, Thomas--1558?-1625, Poetry, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Authorship--Baconian Theory, Sidney, Philip--Sir--1554-1586--Arcadia
...be admitted to be sufficiently striking. In his speech against the Earl of Somerset for the alleged poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, Bacon, speaking of the heinousness of the crime of poisoning, said as follows: "But it hath three circumstances...
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Sir Walter Raleigh: His Family and Private Life
Book by A. L. Rowse; Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1962
Subjects: Raleigh, Walter--Sir--1552?-1618
Lucas, Sir Thomas, 98 , 104 , 105 , 108...Throckmorton Lucy, Sir Thomas, 50 , 74 , 194 Luffield...79 , 97 , 253 More, Sir Thomas, 3 , 4 , 5 Mountjoy, Charles...Ormonde, Earl of, 136 Overbury, Sir Thomas, 305 Oxford...
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The Life of Sir John Eliot, 1592 to 1632: Struggle for Parliamentary Freedom
Book by Harold Hulme; Allen & Unwin, 1957
Subjects: Eliot, John--Sir--1592-1632
...Merovingian Kings, 378 Mervyn, Sir Henry, 163 Middlesex...Lionel Cranfield Mildmay, Sir Henry, MP, Master of...see John Mohun Mohun, Sir Reginald, 175 , 179 Monarchy...Outlaw, 176 -7, 318 Overbury, Sir Thomas, 373 Oxfordshire, 230...
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A Dictionary of the Characters in the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott
Book by M. F. A. Husband; George Routledge and Sons, 1910
Subjects: Scott, Walter--Sir--1771-1832--Dictionaries, Indexes, Etc, Scott, Walter--Sir--1771-1832--Waverley Novels (Boston, Mass.)
...of the English King at Sir John de Waltons hunting...explaining the terms on which Sir James Douglas was willing...matter of Somerset and Overbury, and so the great Earl...of the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury in the Tower. Both Lady...
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Sir Edward Coke and "The Grievances of the Commonwealth," 1621-1628
Book by Stephen D. White; University of North Carolina Press, 1979
Subjects: Coke, Edward--Sir--1552-1634, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1603-1649, Law--Great Britain--History
Mildmay, Sir Walter, 198 Mileham, 3 Milles, Thomas, 118 Mint, royal...Monopolies Monson, Sir Thomas, 221 Montague, Sir...53 , 72 , 78 Mun, Thomas, 88 , 92 , 94 n Muscovy...Trade: overburdening of Overbury affair, 7 Oxford...
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journal articles on: Overbury Sir Thomas  - 35 results

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Characters: Together with Poems, News, Edicts, and Paradoxes Based on the Eleventh Edition of A Wife Now the Widow of Sir Thomas Overbury
Journal article by James S. Baumlin; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Characters: Together with Poems, News, Edicts, and Paradoxes based on the Eleventh Edition of A Wife Now the Widow of Sir Thomas Overbury. (Book)--Book reviews
...Poems, News, Edicts, and Paradoxes Based on the Eleventh Edition of A Wife Now the Widow of Sir Thomas Overbury. by James S. Baumlin Thomas Overbury. Characters: Together with Poems, News, Edicts, and Paradoxes based on the Eleventh Edition...
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The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660
Journal article by Jenny Wormald; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660. (Book)--Book reviews
...England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660. Cambridge...murky, squalid scandal, the Overbury affair, which has provided the...events leading up to the death of Sir Thomas Overbury in September 1613 and the revelation...
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The Role of Spirituality in Coping with Visual Impairment
Journal article by Maya A. Yampolsky, Walter Wittich, Gail Webb, Olga Overbury; Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Vol. 102, 2008
Subjects: Spirituality--Psychological aspects, Visually disabled persons--Behavior, Visually disabled persons--Psychological aspects, Visually impaired persons--Behavior, Visually impaired persons--Psychological aspects
...Clinic at the Ophthalmology Department of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital...by the institutional review boards of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital...Wittich, M.A., Ph.D. candidate, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital...
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Staging the Vernacular: Language and Nation in Thomas Kyd's 'The Spanish Tragedy.'
Journal article by Carla Mazzio; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 38, 1998
Subjects: English drama (Tragedy)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Kyd, Thomas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Spanish Tragedy (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...afterward my heart. - Thomas Kyd, The Spanish...words," writes Sir Philip Sidney...England. Similarly, Sir John Cheke warns...letter to Sir Thomas Hoby, printed in...affected Traueller," Sir Thomas Overbury writes, "His attire...
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Performing Places in Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus
Journal article by Paul Frazer; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 89, 2010
...Larry M. Robbins, ed., Thomas Dekkers "A Knights Conjuring...by Charles II; in 1851 Sir George Airy established...and remembered by Sir Thomas Overbury and Robert Carr, who...The Plague Pamphlets of Thomas Dekker, ed. F. P...
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magazine articles on: Overbury Sir Thomas  - 2 results

 
 
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Sherborne Castle
Magazine article by Richard Ollard; History Today, Vol. 44, March 1994
Subjects: Castles--England, Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc.--England, Sherborne, England--Historic sites
...the greatest of its many owners, Sir Waiter Ralegh. The road from Devon...promptly convicted of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. A more suitable occupant presented...the English ambassador to Madrid, Sir John Digby, later 1st Earl of Bristol...
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The Bard and Pharmacy
Magazine article by Carol Ukens; Drug Topics, 1993
Subjects: England, Performing arts, Pharmaceuticals
...Recipes for subtle poisoning freely circulated outside medical circles in Shakespeares England. He was alive when Sir Thomas Overbury was poisoned in the Tower of London in 1613. The victim was drugged by slow poisons prepared by an apothecary and...


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newspaper articles on: Overbury Sir Thomas  - 3 results

 
 
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Academic Is '90 per Cent Certain' over Bard Portrait
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 23, 2009
Subjects: Shakespeare, William--Statistics
...as "codswallop" by Sir Roy Strong, former director...portrait is the poet Sir Thomas Overbury. Supporters of the Shakespeare...Piper, which identified Overbury as the sitter. They...in a known portrait of Overbury. Prof Wells added that...
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Kerryhead Chases Repeat
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), November 10, 2005
Subjects: Wind power plants, Wind power--Buildings and facilities
...latest efforts and along with Contradeal appear the principal form candidates in the Holy Cross Hurdle. Sir Overbury, the mount of John Thomas McNamara and already having experience in point to points and the racecourse, gets the selection in the...
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Deaths
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), December 30, 2010
...December 20, 2010. (To Sir Jack. Thats what it...donations if desired to Thomas Porter and Sons. Resting at and all enquiries to Thomas Porter and Sons, 142...Mass at St. Annes, Overbury Street, L7 on Wednesday...Cancer Research c/o Thomas McMullan Funeral Services...


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encyclopedia articles on: Overbury Sir Thomas  - 5 results

 
 
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Overbury, Sir Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OVERBURY, SIR THOMAS 1581 1613, English author and courtier...acquaintance. The two quarreled violently when Overbury disapproved of Carrs marriage to Frances...brought pressure to bear, and James I had Overbury imprisoned in the Tower, where he was...
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Suffolk, Thomas Howard, 1st Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SUFFOLK, THOMAS HOWARD, 1ST EARL OF 1561 1626, English nobleman; son of the 4th...earl of Somerset , were tried and convicted (1616) of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. Suffolk himself was accused (1618) of embezzlement and fraud as...
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Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...lands that had been forfeited by Sir Walter Raleigh. He was created...the murder of his former friend, Sir Thomas Overbury , Somerset and his wife were tried...1622. See M. A. DeFord, The Overbury Affair (1960...
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Theophrastus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sketches of various ethical types, provides a valuable picture of his time. It anticipates such studies as those by Sir Thomas Overbury, John Earle, and La Bruyere. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...divorce of his grandniece, Frances Howard, from the 3d earl of Essex, and was responsible for the imprisonment of Sir Thomas Overbury , although presumably not for his murder. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...


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