biography
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| lived:
| (c.1558–96)
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| biography:
| Elizabethan playwright and poet, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, then moved to London, where for 17 years he lived a Bohemian life as actor, poet, and playwright. His best-known works are The Arraignment of Paris (1584), a dramatic pastoral containing ingenious flatteries of Elizabeth, the historical play Edward I (1593), and the popular play The Old Wives' Tale (1595). The latter is a satire on the romantic dramas of the time, one of the first English works of its kind. |
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