Editing Thomas Campion (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Thomas Campion Signature.png|thumb|269x269px|Minutes of the examination of Thomas Campion on 26 October 1615, prior to the arrest of Sir Thomas Monson for complicity in the Overbury murder]]
Campion made a [[Oral will|nuncupative will]] on 1 March 1619/20 before "divers credible witnesses": a memorandum was made that he did "not longe before his death say that he did give all that he had unto Mr Phillip Rosseter, and wished that his estate had bin farre more", and Rosseter was sworn before Dr Edmund Pope to administer as principal legatee on 3 March 1619/20.<ref>London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, Ref. MS 9172/31, Will number 150.</ref>

While Campion had attained a considerable reputation in his own day, in the years that followed his death his works sank into complete oblivion. No doubt this was due to the nature of the media in which he mainly worked, the masque and the song-book. The masque was an amusement at any time too costly to be popular, and during the [[Commonwealth of England|Commonwealth]] period it was practically extinguished. The vogue of the song-books was even more ephemeral, and, as in the case of the masque, the [[Puritan]] ascendancy, with its distaste for all secular music, effectively put an end to the [[Madrigal (music)|madrigal]]. Its loss involved that of many hundreds of dainty lyrics, including those of Campion, and it was due to the work of [[Arthur Henry Bullen|A. H. Bullen]] (see bibliography), who first published a collection of the poet's works in 1889, that his genius was recognised and his place among the foremost rank of [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] lyric poets restored.<ref name="brittanica1911" />

Early dictionary writers, such as [[Fétis]], saw Campion as a theorist.<ref name="fetis">François-Joseph Fétis, 'Campion' in: ''[https://archive.org/details/biographieuniver02ft Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique, vol. 3]'' (2nd edition, Paris, 1867) p. 169.</ref> It was much later on that people began to see him as a composer. He was the writer of a poem, "Cherry Ripe", which is not the [[Cherry Ripe (song)|later famous poem of that title]] but has several similarities.

===In popular culture===
Repeated reference was made to Campion (1567–1620) in an October 2010 episode of the [[BBC TV]] series ''[[James May's Man Lab]]'' ([[BBC2]]), where his works are used as the inspiration for a young man trying to serenade a female colleague. This segment was referenced in the second and third series of the programme as well.

Occasional mention is made of Campion ("Campian") in the comic strip ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'' (i.e., 5 April 2004), referencing historical context for playing the lute.