Lording Barry

Duncan Fraser (University of Sussex)

Ed. by William M. Hamlin, Washington State University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Dates

Born 1580
Died 1629

Places

Active in England

Activities

Primary

Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

What we know about Lording Barry, playwright and pirate, suggests a somewhat unreliable, roguish character, rather like the protagonist of his only certainly attributable play, Ram Alley: a bit of a lad, willing to take financial risks under inauspicious circumstances, leave other people to deal with the consequences and, when up against the wall, prepared to resort to his “well-drawn blade” (Ram Alley, 5.1.150).

Cecil L’Estrange Ewen (1938) tells us that Barry was baptised in London on the 17^th of April 1580. He was the fourth child of Nicholas Barry (a citizen fishmonger of some substance who had his own coat of arms) by his second wife Alice, née Lording, the daughter of a merchant-taylor. …

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Citation: Fraser, Duncan. "Lording Barry". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 November 2014 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13387, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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