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Born 1585? • London • England
Buried February 1626
Notable Works “All’s Lost by Lust”
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
John Fletcher, engraving
John Fletcher
English dramatist
Philip Massinger.
Philip Massinger
English playwright
Thomas Middleton, engraving
Thomas Middleton
English dramatist
Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir John Suckling
English poet and dramatist
English playwright and poet
James Shirley
English playwright
Thomas Nabbes
English writer
J.M. Synge
J.M. Synge
Irish author
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
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 Marston
British dramatist
Nicholas Udall
English writer
Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Thomas Otway
English author
John Lyly
English writer
Mathews, Charles James
Charles James Mathews
English writer and comedian
A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
British author
Robert Armin
English actor
Thomas Heywood
English actor and playwright
P.G. Wodehouse, 1945.
P.G. Wodehouse
British author