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Pages in category "16th-century English dramatists and playwrights" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Title page from A Pleasant Comedy, Called a Maidenhead Well Lost, 1634. Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre.
He was drawn into the Martin Marprelate controversy on the side of the bishops. As with the other writers in the controversy, his share is difficult to determine. He was formerly credited with the three "Pasquill" tracts of 1589–1590, [5] which were included in R. B. McKerrow's standard edition of Nashe's works: however McKerrow himself later argued strongly against their being by Nashe. [6]
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In just over two years, from spring 1598 to summer 1600, Wilson worked with other members of Henslowe's stable of house playwrights on sixteen different plays, including three two-part projects. Several of these were never completed. Earl Goodwin and his Three Sons, Parts 1 and 2, with Michael Drayton, Henry Chettle, and Thomas Dekker; March 1598.
Marston was born to John and Maria Marston née Guarsi, and baptised 7 October 1576, at Wardington, Oxfordshire.His father was an eminent lawyer of the Middle Temple who first argued in London and then became the counsel to Coventry and ultimately its steward.
Heywood portrait 1556. John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580) was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. [1] [2] Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no musical works survive. [3]