biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1558–92)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Norwich, Norfolk, E England, UK. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge, moved to London, and began to write a stream of plays and romances, his most popular work being the comedy Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (c.1589). He helped to lay the foundations of English drama, and his Pandosto (1588) was a source for Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. In his final years, his work grew more serious, and after his death appeared his A Groat's Worth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance (1592), in which he lays bare the wickedness of his former life. |
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