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Blow, John
John Blow
English musician
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Jonson, Ben
Ben Jonson
English writer
Inigo Jones
English architect and artist
Sir William Davenant
English writer
William Boyce
British composer
Samuel Daniel
British author
Thomas Heywood
English actor and playwright
Conradus Celtis
German scholar
English playwright and poet
James Shirley
English playwright
MacKaye, Percy
Percy MacKaye
American writer
James Thomson
Scottish poet [1700–1748]
William Lawes
English composer
Matthew Locke, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Matthew Locke
British composer
John Christopher Pepusch
German composer
William Cornysh
English musician, author and actor
John Day
English dramatist
Henry Lawes, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, Oxford
Henry Lawes
English composer
Nicholas Lanier
English composer
Alfonso Ferrabosco, II
English composer