biography
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| lived:
| (1576–1634)
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| biography:
| Playwright and satirist, born in Wardington, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and wrote several plays which were published between 1602 and 1607, notably The Malcontent (1604), and Eastward Ho! (1605), a satirical comedy written in conjunction with Chapman and Jonson. In 1607 he gave up playwriting, took orders (1609), and held the living of Christ Church, Hampshire (1616–31). |
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