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Nahum Tate (
1652–
July 30,
1715) was an Irish
poet,
hymnist, and
lyricist, who became England's
poet laureate in 1692.
Life
Nahum Tate was born in
Dublin in 1652, the son of Faithful Teate, an Irish clergyman, who had written a quaint poem on the Trinity entitled Ter Tria. He graduated from
Trinity College, Dublin with a BA in 1672, and by 1676 he'd moved to London and was writing for a living. The following year he'd adopted the spelling
Tate, which would remain until his death, in 1715, in Southwark, London, England.
Works
Tate published a volume of poems in London in 1677, and became a regular writer for the stage. "
Brutus of Alba, or The Enchanted Lovers" (1678), a tragedy dealing with
Dido and
Aeneas, later adapted to the libretto for
Henry Purcell's opera
Dido and Aeneas (1689?), and
The Loyal General (1680), were followed by a series of adaptations from Elizabethan dramas. (1687) was fitted with a happy ending in a marriage between
Cordelia and Edgar; and
Coriolanus became the Ingratitude of a Commonwealth (1682). From
John Fletcher he adapted
The Island Princess (1687); from Chapman and Marston's
Eastward Ho he derived
The Cuckold's Haven (1685); in 1707 he rewrote
John Webster's
White Devil; and Sir
Aston Cockayne's
Trappolin suppos'd a Prince he imitated in
Duke and no Duke (1685).
Tate also translated
Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus,
Girolamo Fracastoro's
Latin pastoral poem on the subject of the disease of
syphilis into English
heroic couplets.
Tate was named as
poet laureate in 1692. His poems were sharply criticized by
Alexander Pope in
The Dunciad.
Of his numerous poems the most original is
Panacea, a poem on Tea (1700). In spite of his consistent Toryism, he succeeded Shadwell as poet laureate in 1692. He died within the precincts of the Mint,
Southwark, where he'd taken refuge from his creditors, in 1715. This included removing the
Fool altogether, adding a
confidante for Cordelia, named Arante, as well as an "abduction" scene of Cordelia on the heath. The play concluded with multiple happy endings: for Lear and Kent, and Cordelia and Edgar, who presumably wed after the play's conclusion. Musical
interludes were sung by cast members during the act breaks, accompanied by a
harpsichord in the
orchestra pit. (For more information about this, see
Riverside Shakespeare Company, and
King Lear.)
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