Samuel Daniel (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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In 1594, for the third edition of Delia—which bore the title Delia and Rosamond augmented—Samuel Daniel included a play, Cleopatra, which was written in the “Senecan mode.” Actually, the author entered the piece in the Stationers’ Register as early as October 19, 1593, and dedicated it to his patron, Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621), the sister of Sir Philip Sidney. He stated that he wrote it at her request and as a companion to her own...
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