; King of SAXONS. Play: Hengist, King of Kent Author: Middleton Text used: ed. Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough is a Jacobean stage play by Thomas Middleton of the 1610s, but first published in 1661. He and his brother Horsa (the names meaning "stallion" and "horse") were the legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon immigrants to Britain as mercenaries in the 5th century. The play is an anomaly in Middleton's œuvre, as his only overt history play. Hengist, King of Kent, was born in Jutland (Denmark) to Chieftan Wictgils. The title page of the first quarto assigns the play to "Tho. "[1], The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 4 September 1646, by Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, but it was not published until 1661, when the bookseller Henry Herringman issued it under the title The Mayor of Quinborough. The historic kings of Kent traced their direct descent from Hengist, although the Kentish royal house was known as Oiscingas, from Hengist's son Oeric, surnamed Oisc (or Aesc), who is said to have reigned alone from 488 to 512. 12 Mar 2006), Citing: John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 64. l. According to Wikipedia and legend, he and his brother Horsa, were volunteer mercenaries for the Angles and Saxons in Vortigern's fight against the Picts of Briton after the fall of the Roman Empire. ALTHOUGH Hengist had thus established himself in the kingdom of Kent, yet the Britons still kept possession of a considerable part of the three provinces he had so unjustly extorted from Vortigern. The Lambarde MS. is 1487.2 in the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., while the Portland MS. is in the University of Nottingham Library. The subject matter is derived from the Matter of Britain; it tells the story of Saxon king Hengist during his wars against the Britons. 1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengest 2. Fortune's altar needs only a pre-set concealment space, not a discovery space. It is his only overtly historical play. Retrieved 17 June 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hengist,_King_of_Kent&oldid=902212884, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 17 June 2019, at 10:31. Hengist married Elsa Horsa Queen of Kent Von Kent (born Saxony). The identity of his mother is not known. Hengist, King of Kent. Lundy, Darryl, "The Peerage.com - A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of England as well as the Royal Families of Europe" (http://www.thepeerage.com rev. 414 Died: abt. Father of Hartwaker, King of the Saxons; Æsc, king of Kent; Rowena, {Fictional} and Ebusa Hengist, King of Kent quantity. Date. Wife/Partner: ? The historic kings of Kent traced their direct descent from Hengist, although the Kentish royal house was known as Oiscingas, from Hengist's son Oeric, surnamed Oisc (or Aesc), who is said to have reigned alone from 488 to 512. It is not known which of the brothers was the elder but since Hengist is always referred to first it is likely he was the elder. They had 2 children: Hartwaker of the Saxons King of the Saxons and one other child. It was read by Pepys. Through most of its existence the play was known by the title that refers to its comic sub-plot, as is true of a few other English Renaissance plays, like Blurt, Master Constable. Another dumb show features a personified Fortune figure. Are you an author? Some of these name elements are only found in the first position, some only in the last position, and some in either position. was a semi-legendary ruler of Kent in southeast England. GBP £ 25.00. Because the manuscripts are more authoritative (copies by the same scribe made from a prompt-book) and contain a fuller text than Q (apparently the product of some censorship), they are more suitable as copy-texts, the Lambarde being the more … Elsa was born in 435, in Kent, England. Hengist, King of Kent: | ||Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough|| is a |Jacobean| stage play by... World Heritage Encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive collection ever assembled. The book is based on an edited series of lectures Tolkien made before and after World War II. According to Wikipedia and legend, he and his brother Horsa, were volunteer mercenaries for the Angles and Saxons in Vortigern's fight against the Picts of Briton after the fall of the Roman Empire. The date of authorship of the play is uncertain, though it is usually dated to c. 1615–20. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Achetez et téléchargez ebook Hengist, King of Kent: or, The Mayor of Quinborough (English Edition): Boutique Kindle - British & Irish : Amazon.fr It is his only overtly historical play. EMBED. Hengest, brother of Horsa. SKU: 167 Categories: Jacobean, Manuscript Plays Tag: Middleton. Hengist Witgisilsson the Jute-Saxon King of Hengest von Saxony Vvihtgilsing Kent was born in 414, at birth place, to Witgisil Wihgils, Vitgils Wittasson the Jute King of Saxony and Whitigistus Saxony. In the 2008 film Merlin and the War of the Dragons, Hengist is shown to be a knight serving under King Vortigern. Together they were legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain who went there, according to the English historian and theologian Bede, to fight for the British king Vortigern against the Picts between AD 446 and 454. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? (One critic has called it "quirky".) Publisher's page. Hengest died circa 488. In resorting to what by 1620 was a somewhat antiquated genre, Middleton chose to exploit an equally dated (from the 1620 perspective) dramaturgical technique: the murders of Constantius and Vortimer are acted out in dumb show instead of being portrayed in the usual combination of speech and action. Description Additional information Description. He reigned for 33 more years and died in 488. Witgisil was born in 360, in Saxony, Germany. Hengest died circa 488. It was read by Pepys. Retrieved 17 June 2019. Eventually Hengist forces Vortiger to name him King of Kent and cede to him the lands of Norfolk and Suffolk. Brother of Horsa. Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough is a Jacobean stage play by Thomas Middleton of the 1610s, but first published in 1661. Its genre does not prevent the playwright from injecting his usual sexual and thematic preoccupations. Hengest or Hengist (d. 488?) Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough is a Jacobean stage play by Thomas Middleton of the 1610s, but first published in 1661. Octa was baptized, and may have been the father of Eormenric or Oisc. Hengist, King of Kent (also known as The Mayor of Quinborough) was one of the most popular plays of the 1630s and 1640s. The form hengest is … But the names Hengist and Horsado not fit this pattern, being words not found in normal names in either position. Bald, New York, Scribner’s Sons, 1938. http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id131.html, Death of Hengest, king of Kent at Tunbridge Castle, "Hengist", "King Hengest (Hengist) "The Jute" Sachsen", King of Kentcirca 455 to 488, King of Kentcir ca 455 to 488, Kung, heerser van Kent, koning van Kent, 2. Hengist, king of Kent by Thomas Middleton, 1938, For the Trustees of Amherst college, C. Scribner's Sons edition, in English HM George I's 35-Great Grandfather. "Both plays are lavish in the use of dumb-show; both revolve around a licentious woman (Beatrice-Joanna, Roxena) believed to be virtuous, and a chaste one (Isabella, Castiza) mistreated by an unworthy husband; and the role taken by Horsus, the secret love of Roxena, in planning villainies is not dissimilar to that of De Flores. Lundy, Darryl, "The Peerage.com - A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of England as well as the Royal Families of Europe" (. The Chronicle says that Hengist began to reign in 455 and that he fought against the Britons; it implies that Hengist died in 488. Born: abt. Geni requires JavaScript! Samuel Pepys was reading it as The Mayor of Quinborough on 16 June 1666, calling it "a simple play" in his diary. It was read by Pepys. Hengist / Hengest King of Kent was born in 415, at birth place, Kentucky, to Withgils Von Sachsen. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. This article is about the play by Thomas Middleton. Hengest has sometimes been identified with the Jutish king of Kent. However, modern scholarship tends to prefer the title from the manuscripts, which refers to the play's main plot. ), brothers and legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain who went there, according to the English historian and theologian Bede, to fight for the British king Vortigern against the Picts between ad 446 and 454. 488. When Aurelius leads the rebellion against Vortiger, Hengist comes to Vortiger's aid but is captured by Devon and Stafford. Add to cart. They led the Anglo-Saxon and Jute invasion of Britain because the people were no good but the land was. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says that they landed at Ebbsfleet, Kent, and that Horsa was killed at Aegelsthrep (possibly Aylesford, Kent) in 455. For the figure from Anglo-Saxon legend, see, Please expand the article to include this information. (Folger Shakespeare Library Pubs) Library ref:822.39 M629 J10 1 Key: enter from within enter from without exit inwards Exit outwards act/sc door IN Entering characters door OUT Space-time indication Commentary and notes Hengist, king of Kent; or, The mayor of Queenborough Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Middleton," and states that the play was acted by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre, although no specific performances are known.[2]. Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough is a Jacobean stage play by Thomas Middleton, first published in 1661.. He was succeeded by his son, Oeric Oisc. Aurelius sentences him to death. According to Bede the brothers were invited to Britain by the British king Vortigern in 449 to assist in defeating the Picts and later established an independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Kent. Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds.. Full diary in pages. (Steven Ferry, February 16, 2020.). They led the Anglo-Saxon and Jute invasion of Britain because the people were no good but the land was. Further details may exist on the. The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ELIZABETH KNOWLES aka Hegiste (Henyest) von SAXONY; invited to England ca 445 by Gwrtheyrn Vortigern, q.v. Hengist may perhaps be identified with the hero of this name mentioned in the epic poem Beowulf in connection with a tribe called Eotan (probably Jutes). Noté /5: Achetez Hengist King Of Kent de Middleton, Professor Thomas: ISBN: 9781169260528 sur amazon.fr, des millions de livres livrés chez vous en 1 jour Hengest VVIHTGILSING (King) of KENT aka Hengist (Heingistr) the JUTE; poss. The dates of his rule remain unclear: Interesitng split stage in III,iii. Hengist and Horsa (d. 488 and d. 455), semi-mythological Jutish leaders. King Hengest (Hengist) "The Jute" Sachsen (de Saxony, von Saxony) Born: Between Circa 415 and 420 In: Denmark, Jutland Died: 488 (at age ~73) In: Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England, Please see Darrell Wolcott; Constans I and his A.D. 343 Visit to Britain; http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id131.html. Hengist, King of Kent , by Thomas Middleton, should be classified as a history play, for in addition to depiciting historical characters and events, it sets forth a complete theory of government, a statement on kingship and its symbiotic rela-tionship to the commonwealth. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Hengist means ‘stallion’ and horsa means ‘horse’. R.C. Bede mentions a monument to him in east Kent; Horstead, near Aylesford, may be named for him. Hengist had 2 brothers: Horsa of the Saxons King of the Saxons and one other sibling. and once on a right facing red shield held by “Hengist” The white horse of Kent is also shown twice on this page on a blue shield, once on the opposite column beneath a scene depicting the conversion of King Ethelberht . 455? 1 review. [3] David Lake, in his study of authorship questions in the Middleton canon, refutes the Rowley hypothesis, and assigns the play to Middleton alone.[4]. [1] He may have inherited the throne from his father, Oisc or he may have been the son of Hengist. Other sources claim that he died in 522. The brothers are said to have been Jutes and sons of one Wihtgils. The names of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes normally each contained two elements, often each a common word in the spoken tongue. Kent seems to have had its greatest power under Æthelbert at the beginning of the 7th century: Æthelbert was recognized as Bretwalda until his death in 616, and was the first Anglo-Saxon king to accept Christianity, as well as the first to introduce a written code of laws in 616. Middleton's authorship of Hengist has never been seriously questioned, although a few scholars have postulated a contribution by Middleton's most frequent collaborator, William Rowley, in the comic subplot concerning the Mayor of Quinborough. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. There are also two extant manuscripts of the play, both of which are scribal copies of the theatre prompt-book. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Some critics have argued that the close relationship between Hengist and The Changeling indicates that the plays were written in fairly close conjunction. The kings of Kent traced their lineage to Hengist through Oisc, and their royal house was called "Oiscingas." Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. The date of authorship of the play … Written by Thomas Middleton by 1619, its main tragic plot concerns the invasion of the Saxons, led by Hengist, into Britain and the division of the kingdom into heptarchies, one of which, Kent, Hengist comes to rule. Agnes Harris's 37-Great Grandfather. Seventeenth-century texts of Hengist, King of Kent, are the quarto edition of 1661 and two manuscripts, referred to as the Lambarde and Portland manuscripts. He had a brother, Horsa. Hengest appears in the Rosemary Sutcliff novel The Lantern Bearers. The natives every where shewed the greatest detestation of the Saxons, and a resolution not to submit to their government till the last extremity. Son of Wihtgils Hengist King Of Kent Paperback – September 10, 2010 by Thomas Middleton (Author) › Visit Amazon's Thomas Middleton Page. Learn about Author Central. [5], In 2005 it was published by Nick Hern Books under the title Mayor of Queenborough.[6]. His name is common Germanic for "stallion". See search results for this author. Hengist and Horsa, Hengist also spelled Hengest, (respectively d. c. 488; d. Withgils was born in 360. Octa or Octha (c. 500 - 543) was a king of Kent during the 6th century. and again over the kingdom of Kent on the actual map part of the page. In the subplot, Middleton takes a satirical jab at the theatrical profession: in Act V, scene i, three thieves pretend to be actors in order to cheat the Mayor. HRE Ferdinand I's 29-Great Grandfather. Hengest is the subject of the 1620 play Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough by Thomas Middleton. The ambitious Vortigern will stop at nothing for the crown. Hengest was Prince of Jutes, King of Saxons in 434; sailed for England and invaded England in 448, and became King of Kent (448-488) After the death of Horsa, Hengist began ruling Kent as king in his own right. But the Saxon Hengist outsmarts him with an ox-hide and becomes King of Kent. It is his only overtly historical play. Hengist married Elsa af Kent.