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William Davenant

1606 - 1668

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Sir William Davenant (baptised 3 March 1606 – 7 April 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Davenant has received more than 187,571 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). William Davenant is the 5,087th most popular writer (down from 4,992nd in 2019), the 3,755th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,865th in 2019) and the 430th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Davenant ranks 5,087 out of 7,302. Before him are Júlia Szendrey, Jacques Chessex, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Amitav Ghosh, Alfhild Agrell, and Max Beerbohm. After him are Riichi Yokomitsu, Elaine May, Savo Kostadinovski, Shankha Ghosh, Frank Heller, and Charlotte Casiraghi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1606, William Davenant ranks 20. Before him are Lorenzo Lippi, Nicolas Mignard, Georg von Derfflinger, Frang Bardhi, Nicolò Sagredo, and Hermann Conring.  Among people deceased in 1668, William Davenant ranks 9. Before him are Jan Miense Molenaer, Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony, Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Nicolas Mignard, Jan Boeckhorst, and Jakob Balde. After him is Vassili Poyarkov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Davenant ranks 3,755 out of 8,785. Before him are Steve Redgrave (1962), Henry Edward Manning (1808), Robin Dunbar (1947), Max Beerbohm (1872), Alex Salmond (1954), and John Neville Keynes (1852). After him are Ed Skrein (1983), Edgar Wright (1974), Peter Lorimer (1946), Ashley Young (1985), Benjamin Robins (1707), and William Henry Young (1863).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Davenant ranks 430. Before him are John Gower (1330), Eliza Acton (1799), Edwin Atherstone (1788), Cynewulf (900), Tanith Lee (1947), and Max Beerbohm (1872). After him are George Borrow (1803), Jonathan Stroud (1970), Anne V. Coates (1925), Elizabeth Goudge (1900), Nicholas Culpeper (1616), and Donald Rayfield (1942).

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