Supposes
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George Gascoigne was an English poet and literary innovator of the Renaissance. He was a skilled writer who adapted foreign literary genres for English audiences.
Gascoigne's play Supposes, a prose translation of Ludovico Ariosto's I Suppositi, was the first prose comedy translated from Italian into English. This play was dramatically effective and served as the subplot for William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Gascoigne also wrote The Steele Glas, one of the earliest formal satires in English, and The Spoyle of Antwerpe, an early example of war journalism.1
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