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Bookmark or Share- May Family: Mays of Sussex: An IntroductionHere in 1595 was born Thomas May, a poet and historian, much in favour at the Court of King Charles I. He wrote three tragedies and two comedies, praised in his day, but now apparently forgotten.
- Thomas May - Westminster AbbeyThomas May, writer and historian, was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey. He was born around 1596, son of Sir Thomas May and his wife Barbara (Rich). He was educated at Cambridge and began a career in law.
- Thomas May, Lucan’s Pharsalia (1627) on JSTORThomas May’s Lucan’s Pharsalia is a translation into rhyming couplets of the Latin poet Lucan’s ten-book narrative on the Roman civil wars, now usually called the Bellum Ciuile (‘Civil War’). May was not the first to translate Lucan into English. Barnaby Googe and George Turberville had contemplated doing so in the 1560s and 1570s.
- Thomas May | Puritan Poet, Historian & Playwright | BritannicaThomas May (born 1595—died Nov. 13, 1650, London) was an English man of letters known for his historical defense of the English Parliament in its struggle against King Charles I. After graduating from Cambridge, May began the study of law at Gray’s Inn (1615).
- Thomas May - WikipediaThomas May (1594/95 [1] – 13 November 1650) was an English poet, dramatist and historian of the Renaissance era. [1] May was born in Mayfield, Sussex, the son of Sir Thomas May, a minor courtier. He matriculated at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1613. [2] .
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