biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1586–c.1640)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Ilsington, Devon, SW England, UK. He studied for a while at Oxford and entered the Middle Temple in 1602. He often collaborated with Dekker, Rowley, and Webster. His own plays were greatly influenced by Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), which led him into the stage presentation of the melancholic, the unnatural, and the horrible in such works as The Lover's Melancholy (1629) and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1633). |
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