Abraham Fraunce

Abraham Fraunce (born c. 1558, –60, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Eng.—died 1633) was an English poet, a protégé of the poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney. Fraunce was educated at Shrewsbury and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where his Latin comedy Victoria, dedicated to Sidney, was probably written. He was called to the bar at Gray’s Inn in 1588 and then apparently practiced in the court of the Welsh marches. After the death of Sidney, Fraunce was...