DAVENPORT, ROBERT (fl. 1623-1639), English dram atist, of whose life nothing is known. Three plays of his have survived, King John and Matilda (printed 16S5) ; and two comedies, The City-Nightcap, (licensed in 1624, but not printed until 1661), and A New Tricke to Cheat the Divell (printed 1639). Other plays entered in the Stationers' Register as Daven port's are lost, including one called Henry I. and Henry II. (1653), the second part of which was said to be the work of Davenport and Shakespeare.
Davenport's plays were reprinted by A. H. Bullen in Old English Plays (new series, 189o). The volume includes two didactic poems, which first saw the light in 1623.