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Thomas Hobbes was born on 5 April 1588 (Old Style), in Westport, now part of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England.Having been born prematurely when his mother heard of the coming invasion of the Spanish Armada, Hobbes later reported that "my mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear."
The eldest son of William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire and his wife Christian Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire, he was educated by his mother with his father's old tutor Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes's translation of Thucydides is dedicated to Cavendish, and from 1634 to 1637 he travelled abroad with the philosopher. [1]
Thomas Killigrew's The Prisoners and Claricilla, 1641. Most of the above plays were printed by Thomas Cotes, the man who printed the Shakespeare Second Folio in 1632. [3] There was a strong professional relationship between Crooke and Cotes. (Cooke usually employed other printers for his independently published plays, cited below.)
In 1637, John Bastwick, ... Thomas Hobbes gave an early historical account of the English Civil War in his Behemoth, written in 1668 and published in 1681.
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668).
Behemoth, full title Behemoth: the history of the causes of the civil wars of England, and of the counsels and artifices by which they were carried on from the year 1640 to the year 1660, also known as The Long Parliament, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes discussing the English Civil War.
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April – Thomas Hobbes travels from Rome to Florence. [3] May 10 – London theatres close, and remain almost continuously closed until the end of the year (and on to October 1637), due to an outbreak of bubonic plague. Playing companies are profoundly impacted; the King's Revels Men dissolve and other companies tour the countryside to survive ...