Gervase Markham

Gervase Markham (* 1568 in Cottam, Nottinghamshire, † February 3, 1637 in London) was a British writer and translator.

Life

Gervase ( the letters " Jervis " happens) served as a soldier in the Netherlands and Ireland, before he in at around 1593 devoted to writing. Robert Gittings assumed that allude behind the rivals, on the many sonnets of William Shakespeare, Gervase Markham hid. Furthermore Gittings Markham considered the archetype of Don Armado in Love 's Labour's Lost. He carried this out in his book Shakespeare's Rival by 1960.

Works

Supposedly Gervase Markham imported the first Arabian horse to England. He wrote besides The Discourse of Horsemans Hippe ( 1593) even more books on horse training: In Cavelarice he devoted a chapter to one of the most famous horses of his time, Marocco, or whose training. He also wrote The Compleat Horseman and Markham 's master -piece. Containing All Knowledge Belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse -Leach, Touching the Curing All Diseases in Horses.

His work The English Housewife, was edited by Michael R. Best, reprinted in an issue of the McGill - Queen's University Press 1994. In A Way to Get Wealth he dealt with Agri - and Horticulture.

Further works by Gervase Markham:

  • The English husbandman ( The English compatriot )
  • A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen
  • The Last Fight of 'The Revenge' on Sea
  • The Dumbe Knight
  • The True Tragedy of Herod and Antipater
  • The Teares of the Beloved
  • Mary Magdalene's Teares

Translations

  • Estienne Liébault, " La Maison Rustique " as "The Countrie Farm", London 1616.
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