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Born 1585? • London • England
Buried February 1626
Notable Works “All’s Lost by Lust”
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
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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
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James Shirley
English playwright
Thomas Nabbes
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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
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John Marston
British dramatist
Nicholas Udall
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Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Thomas Otway
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John Lyly
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Mathews, Charles James
Charles James Mathews
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A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
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Robert Armin
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Thomas Heywood
English actor and playwright
P.G. Wodehouse, 1945.
P.G. Wodehouse
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