biography
pronunciation:
[gaskoyn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1525–77)
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| biography:
| Poet and playwright, born in Cardington, Bedfordshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, entered Gray's Inn, wrote poems, and sat in parliament (1557–9), but was disinherited for his extravagance. He served in Holland (1573–5) under the Prince of Orange, but was taken prisoner and detained for four months. He then settled in Walthamstow, where he collected and published his poems, and translated from Greek, Latin, and Italian. He wrote Certayne Notes of Instruction on Making of Verse (1575), which is the first English essay on the subject. His play Jocasta was one of the first tragedies written in blank verse in English. |
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