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Facts

Born February 1609 • England
Died 1642 (aged 32) • Paris • France
Notable Works “A Session of the Poets” • “Aglaura”
Movement / Style Cavalier poets

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Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Thomas Nabbes
English writer
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
English playwright and poet
James Shirley
English playwright
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
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John Fletcher, engraving
John Fletcher
English dramatist
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John Marston
British dramatist
Philip Massinger.
Philip Massinger
English playwright
Thomas Middleton, engraving
Thomas Middleton
English dramatist
Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Thomas Otway
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Robert Armin
English actor and playwright
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William Rowley
English dramatist and actor
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Thomas Randolph
English poet and dramatist
Thomas Sackville, 1st earl of Dorset.
Thomas Sackville, 1st earl of Dorset
English statesman, poet, and dramatist
Lovelace, oil painting by an unknown artist; in Dulwich College Picture Gallery, London
Richard Lovelace
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Pietro Aretino
Italian author

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