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The Night Walker, or The Little Thief is an early seventeenth-century stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher and later revised by his younger contemporary James Shirley. It was first published in 1640 .
John Fletcher and James Shirley – The Night Walker; John Ford (published in individual editions) The Broken Heart; Love's Sacrifice 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; Henry Glapthorne – Argalus and Parthenia (approx. date) Thomas Goffe – Orestes (published) Peter Hausted (published) The Rival Friends [3] Senile Odium; Thomas Heywood – The English ...
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In 1633, Shirley revised a play by John Fletcher, possibly called The Little Thief, into The Night Walker, which was acted in 1634 and printed in 1640. In 1634–35, Shirley revised The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France, a play that George Chapman had written sometime between 1611 and 1622. The revised version was printed in 1639.
The Night Walker, 1640; The Opportunity, 1640. They also published John Fletcher's Wit Without Money in 1639. In addition, Andrew Crooke issued plays apart from Cooke: Henry Killigrew's The Conspiracy, 1638; Shirley's Love's Cruelty, 1640; Robert Chamberlain's The Swaggering Damsel, 1640; Thomas Killigrew's The Prisoners and Claricilla, 1641.
Fletcher was born in December 1579 (baptised 20 December) in Rye, Sussex, and died of the plague in August 1625 (buried 29 August in St. Saviour's, Southwark). [1] His father Richard Fletcher was an ambitious and successful cleric who was in turn Dean of Peterborough, Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Worcester and Bishop of London (shortly before his death), as well as chaplain to Queen Elizabeth. [2]
The night form of the Shishigami (Spirit of the Forest), a character in Princess Mononoke; Folklore and mythology.
William Rowley (c. 1585 – February 1626) was an English Jacobean dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with more successful writers.His date of birth is estimated to have been c. 1585; he was buried on 11 February 1626 in the graveyard of St James's, Clerkenwell in north London.