ABSTRACT
Sir William D'Avenant (1606-68) briefly attended Lincoln College, Oxford, and attached himself for a short while to the ageing Fulke Greville, in whose service he learned the court manners that stood him well for the remainder of his life. He evidently liked to imagine himself the natural son of Shakespeare. Richard Flecknoe, in Sir William D'avenant's Voyage to the Other World . . . (1668), represents him arriving in Elysium, and being amazed
