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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.
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.
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.
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]
From his eighteenth year Norton began to compose verse. With Jasper Heywood he was a writer of sonnets. He contributed to Tottel's Miscellany, and in 1560 he co-authored, along with Thomas Sackville, the earliest English tragedy, Gorboduc, which was performed before Elizabeth I in the Inner Temple on 18 January 1561.
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