Richard Flecknoe (about 1600 - about 1678) was an English poet and playwright. About his childhood and birth, nothing is known with certainty. He traveled a lot, and what is known about him comes from a book of collected letters to his friends, Relation of Ten Years' Travels in Europe, Asia, Affrique, and America (1654). This shows that he may have been of Irish origin and ever been a priest. The first of these letters dates from 1640 and was from Ghent, where he was evicted to escape the events during the English Civil War. In Brussels he met Béatrix de Cusance, the wife of Charles IV of Lorraine, who asked him to ensure the legality of her marriage in Rome. There he met the poet Andrew Marvell, who later devoted to him, "Flecknoe, an English Priest at Rome," later on, because of his less-favored poetry.
A collection of sketches in prose under the title Enigmaticall Characters appeared in 1658. His Short Discourse on the English Stage from 1664, criticizing the immorality of the English scene, stood on a biting satire, Mac Flecknoe, by John Dryden. A seal bundle under the title Epigrams of All Sorts came out in 1670. Of the five works performed by Flecknoe, only one was performed: Love's Dominion (1654). The title of this piece was changed in 1664 to Love's Kingdom, with a Discourse of the English Stage. Externe link
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