Life
?1570-1628; b. playwright and Dean of Lismore, 1621; collaborated with
Massinger and Field; the only extant examples of his own playwrighting
are A Christian turn’d Turke (1612), and extant, A Christian
Turn’d Turke (1612) and The Poor-man’s Comfort [n.d.].
DNB DIW
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Notes
Dictionary of National Biography; states in preface to A
Christian Turn’d Turke (1612) that his descent was ‘not
obscure but generous’; prob. b. Guildford, Suffolk; warrant granted
in name of ‘Daborne and others the queen’s servants 4 Jan. Jacobi,
to bring up and practise children in plays by the name of Children of
the Queen’s Revels (Collier, New Facts); letters from Daborne to
Henslowe preserved in Dulwich MSS, chiefly for 1613; wrote in 1613 four
unpublished plays, Machievell and the Devil; The Arraignment
of London, one act of which was by Cyril Tourner; The Bellman of
London; The Owl; engaged on The She Saint, in spring
1614; collab. with Field and Massinger; a letter shows the three begging
£5 for bail from Henslowe; signed bond to repay; took orders, date unknown;
A Sermon on Zach, ii. 7 (1618), octavo; preached in Waterford;
patronage of Lord Willoughby; preferred to prependary of Lismore Cathedral,
1619, Dean, 1621; d. 23 March. Extant plays, A Christian turn’d
Turke, or the Tragicall Liues and Deaths of the two famous Pyrates, Ward
and Danseker (1612), 4o, founded on Andrew Barker’s
prose narrative; The Poor Man’s Comfort, a tragi-comedy
[...] divers times acted at the Cock-Pit in Drury Lane with great applause.
Written by Robert Dauborne [sic], MA (1655 [sic]), with MS copy Egerton
MS 1994; commendatory verses prefixed to Christopher Brook’s ghost
of King Richard the Third (1615); in The Time of Poets,
he is mentioned, ‘Dawborne I had forgot, and let it be/He died amphibious
by the ministry’; bibl. sources (inter. al.), Cotton’s Fasti
Eccles. Hiberniae,
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