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Born	1583 • near Salisbury • England
Died	March 1639 or March 1640 (aged 56) • London • England
Notable Works	“A New Way to Pay Old Debts” • “The City Madam” • “The False One” • “The Fatal Dowry” • “The Maid of Honour” • “The Virgin Martyr”

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Thomas Middleton

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

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John Fletcher, engraving

John Fletcher

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Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sir John Suckling

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William Rowley

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James Shirley

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Thomas Nabbes

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J.M. Synge

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David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

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Sir Richard Steele

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John Marston

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Nicholas Udall

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Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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John Lyly

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Charles James Mathews

English writer and comedian

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A.A. Milne

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Robert Armin

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Thomas Heywood

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P.G. Wodehouse sits at a desk with a typewriter, holding a pipe and looking at papers, in his Paris home in 1945.

P.G. Wodehouse

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