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Born December 1505? • Southampton • England
Died December 1556 • City of Westminster • England
Notable Works “Ralph Roister Doister”
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
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Thomas May
English scholar
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
British critic and writer
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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Marlowe or not Marlowe?
Christopher Marlowe
English writer
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Richard Steele
British author and politician
John Fletcher, engraving
John Fletcher
English dramatist
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
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John Marston
British dramatist
Philip Massinger.
Philip Massinger
English playwright
Thomas Middleton, engraving
Thomas Middleton
English dramatist
Thomas Shadwell, engraving.
Thomas Shadwell
English author
Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Thomas Otway
English author