biography
pronunciation:
[chetl]
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| male
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| lived:
| (?–c.1607)
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| biography:
| Playwright and pamphleteer, born in London, UK. A printer by trade, he turned to writing when his printing-house failed. He wrote a picaresque romance, Piers Plainnes Seven Yeres Prentiship (1595), and from 1598 wrote plays for Philip Henslowe's Rose Theatre in Bankside, especially The Tragedy of Hoffman (1602), collaborating on many others. |
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