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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 .
16th-century dramatists and playwrights by nationality (9 C) Pages in category "16th-century dramatists and playwrights" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
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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George Peele (baptised 25 July 1556– death date uncertain) was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed, but not universally accepted, collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play Titus Andronicus.
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.
It was left to "the actor-playwrights who, rising from very humble beginnings, but possessing in their fellow Shakespeare a champion unparalleled in ancient and modern times, borrowed the improvements of the university wits, added their own stage knowledge, and with Shakespeare's aid achieved the master drama of the world."
Udall was born in Hampshire and educated at Winchester College, [5] then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he held a scholarship.In 1524 he was elected a probationer fellow and probably took his B.A. [6] He was tutored under the guidance of Thomas Cromwell, who mentions him in a letter to John Creke of 17 August 1523 as 'Maister Woodall'.