Talk:Henry Porter (playwright)

Henry Porter
Hi GBH, I was wondering what the source was of the very comprehensive article you contributed on Henry Porter the Elizabethan dramatist. It reads as if it came from a book -- is it one (or several) of those cited in the References? Also I was curious to know why you replaced all the previously existing material from the Encyclopaedia Britannica? I'd have thought some of it might be worth keeping, such as the fact that Porter probably studied at Brasenose College. Flapdragon 20:49, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

My style must be improving. This is my own text based on the sources cited, which so far as I can see are the full modern sources for this little known playwright. His work and life were relevant for some other larger research I was doing. I couldn't find a way of editing the Britannica article sensibly. I specifically didn't keep the Brasenose reference because the consensus is that he didn't study there. Shears suggest he did, Oliphant points out it doesn't fit his chronology, and new DNB says the archives at Oxford have been scoured and that although several Henry Porter's have been found none of them fit. He describes himself as a "poor scholar" which suggest a University education, and as Porter is an Oxfordshire family name and Abingdon is near Oxford the assumption is that he went there, but there is no evidence that he did. GBH 13:12, 27 March 2006 (UTC)