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Thomas Dekker
Thomas Dekker c,1570-1632, English dramatist and pamphleteer. Little is known of his life except that he frequently suffered from poverty and served several prison terms for debt. He began his literary career c.1598 working for Philip Henslowe . During this period he wrote his most famous play, ... Read more |
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Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton 1580-1627, English dramatist, b. London, grad. Queen's College, Oxford, 1598. His early plays were chiefly written in collaboration with Dekker , Drayton , and others. Between 1604 and 1611 he wrote realistic, satiric comedies of London life, including A Trick to Catch the Old... Read more |
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John Day
John Day 1574?-1640?, English dramatist. Educated at Cambridge, he was one of Philip Henslowe's group of playwrights, collaborating with Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and others. The allegorical masque The Parliament of Bees, which was written c.1607 (pub. 1641) is his only important work. His... Read more |
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Griselda
Griselda , long-suffering heroine of medieval story, whose husband subjects her to numerous trials in order to test her devotion. The story originated in a widespread W European folktale patterned in part upon the story of Cupid and Psyche. The tale of Griselda was used by Boccaccio in the ... Read more |
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William Rowley
William Rowley , 1585?-1642?, English playwright and actor. He collaborated with many noted dramatists, including Dekker, Ford, and Webster; his best work, notably The Changeling (1622), was written with Thomas Middleton . Of Rowley's own plays, All's Lost by Lust (1622) is considered to be his... Read more |
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Vagrancy Acts
Vagrancy Acts. Vagrancy was a phenomenon which particularly worried late medieval and Tudor society, not merely because it often led to crime, but because ‘masterless men’ seemed to threaten the whole social structure. The breakdown of the authority of lords of the manor freed men and... Read more |
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Philip Henslowe
Philip Henslowe , c.1550-1616, English businessman and theatrical manager. Although he managed the Rose Theatre, Bankside, London, and the Fortune Theatre, Cripplegate, London, he is best remembered for his association with his son-in-law Edward Alleyn and the Admiral's Men . He employed a number... Read more |
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Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger , 1583-1640, English dramatist, b. Salisbury. He studied at Oxford (1602-6) but left without a degree, apparently to go to London to write plays. A prolific writer, Massinger wrote more than 40 plays (often in collaboration). He is best known for the comedies A New Way to Pay Old... Read more |
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Dekker, Thomas
Dekker, Thomas (?1572–1632), was born and mainly...Virgin Martyr (1622), written in 1620. Dekker also wrote pageants, tracts, and pamphlets...1609) is a satirical book of manners.Dekker's work is noted for its realistic and... |
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Middleton, Thomas
Middleton, Thomas (c.1570–1627) English dramatist. He collaborated with Thomas Dekker on the comedy The Honest Whore (1604). His own comedies include A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1611) and the political satire A Game at Chess (1624... |
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Vagrancy Acts
...largest town in the country, produced its own vagrants and imported others from the neighbouring counties. In 1608 Thomas Dekker, the playwright, wrote that suburbs were ‘caves where monsters are bred up to devour the cities themselves... |
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Warburton, John
...unluckely burnd or put under Pye Bottoms’. He left a list of the titles of these lost plays, from which it appears that the chief sufferers from Betsy's depredations were Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and Philip Massinger. |
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chronicle play
...the early 17th cent., in which scenes from the life of a monarch or famous historical character were depicted. Examples are Shakespeare's Henry V and Henry VIII, the Sir Thomas More play, and Dekker and Webster's Sir Thomas Wyat. |
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Deloney, Thomas
Deloney, Thomas (?1560–1600), wrote broadside ballads...includes the story of Simon Eyre adapted by Dekker in The Shoemaker's Holiday; The gentle craft. The Second Part; and Thomas of Reading. His fiction celebrates the virtues... |
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Overbury, Sir Thomas
Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581–1613), opposed the marriage of his patron Robert Carr (afterwards...Later editions added new characters, some by J. Webster and some by Dekker. Earle responded to their harsh and anti-scholastic tone in his own... |
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More, Sir Thomas
More, Sir Thomas, a play based on Hall's Chronicle and biographies of More, surviving in...five different hands, probably including those of Chettle, Heywood, Dekker, and a playhouse scribe known to have worked for both Strange's Men... |
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rogue literature
...cents. Its practitioners include the Kentish magistrate Thomas Harman; R. Greene, whose pamphlets describe ‘coney-catching’, that is, the deception of innocents; and T. Dekker. Rogue literature is generally vividly descriptive and often... |
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mind
...learning to write in distinguishing between the tailed letters p and q.In the early 17th century, the dramatist Thomas Dekker has ‘Now thou art in thy pee and cue’; pee here is a kind of coat, and cue means either a queue of hair, or... |
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The date of Thomas Combe's Fortunatus and its relation to Thomas Dekker's Old...
ABSTRACTS The Date of Thomas Combe's Fortunatus and its Relation to Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus by Michael...1568). The borrowings from Dekker make 1600 the earliest possible...of a textual reference. Thomas Dekker's Old ... |
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THE MANY SHADES OF THOMAS DEKKER
...have not been supported by many people," says Thomas Dekker without laughter or remorse. At 23, he has...so when it aired, "the story became, 'Thomas Dekker is a homophobe' or 'Thomas Dekker is gay and uncomfortable playing ... |
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Thomas Dekker's political commentary in 'The Whore of Babylon.'
...Gunpowder Plot (5 November 1605), Thomas Dekker's The Whore of Babylon - a long...she concentrates on establishing Dekker's ideological consistency as a...even with Gasper's elaboration of Dekker's political ideology. Prioritizing... |
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Thomas Dekker steps into 'the secret circle'.
...and horror jobs, they seem to find me," Thomas Dekker says. "They just seem to find me." Dekker isn't kidding. At 24 he already counts...go out of my way to do these projects," Dekker says, "and I really never have. I did my... |
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Performing historicity in Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday.(essay)(Thomas...
...play to feature a middling-sort history is Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599). Dekker recounts the story of Simon Eyre, a figure...content for works of "serious" history. Thomas Blundeville's The True Order and Methode... |
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Dramatic nostalgia and spectacular conversion in Dekker and Massinger's: the...
...Nostalgia and Spectacular Conversion in Dekker and Massinger's The Virgin Martyr Critical debates about Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger's The Virgin...in the play's source materials, Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger create... |
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Thomas Dekker: you know him from Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but...
Thomas Dekker is one of those people who looks so familiar...From Within. Now, at just 20 years old, Thomas has moved behind the camera--he wrote...consider yourself an action/adventure guy? Thomas Dekker: It's funny--sci-fi and... |
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Stanley Wells. Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben...
...Wells. Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players...page or two each to John Lyly, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, George Peele, Thomas Nashe, and ... |
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Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas...
...Wells. Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middletown, John Fletcher and the Other Players...greater" (104). Wells makes a strong case for Dekker's link to London and the emerging interest in... |
 "The Independent on Sunday (London, England)")
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Tour de force endures last-minute doubt WATCH THIS FACE Thomas Dekker, cyclist
Thomas Dekker is taking part in the Tour de France...his namesake and Rabobank teammate Erik Dekker - no relation -who is so good at getting...actually capable of." Despite his youth, Dekker had a brilliant spring campaign, securing... |
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