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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 .
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.
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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]
Peele died "of the pox," according to Francis Meres, and was buried on 9 November 1596 in St James's Church, Clerkenwell.One of the eight boarding houses at the modern Horsham campus of Christ's Hospital is now named Peele after George Peele, and as a commemoration to the work of the Peele family with the ancient foundation of the Christ's Hospital school.
Legge is best known for his three-act Latin tragedy of Richardus Tertius or Richard III, which was performed at St John's College in 1579. This work is alluded to by Sir John Harington in his Brief Apologie of Poetry as a famous tragedy of this time, and is believed to be the play Cambridge men asked Lord Burghley's permission to substitute in 1592-1593 for the English comedy the queen had ...
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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'.