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Baptized October 7, 1576
Died June 25, 1634 • London • England
Notable Works “Eastward Ho” • “Histrio-mastix” • “Last Instructions to a Painter” • “The Dutch Courtezan” • “The Malcontent” • “The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres”
Movement / Style Jacobean age
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Jonson, Ben
Ben Jonson
English writer
Thomas Middleton, engraving
Thomas Middleton
English dramatist
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
English poet
Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Thomas Otway
English author
Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir John Suckling
English poet and dramatist
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Robert Armin
English actor and playwright
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Richard Savage
English writer
English playwright and poet
James Shirley
English playwright
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Anne Ridler
British writer
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Thomas Randolph
English poet and dramatist
Walter de la Mare, photograph by Mark Gerson.
Walter de la Mare
British author
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Thomas Nabbes
English writer
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William Whitehead
British poet

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