biography
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| lived:
| (?–1575)
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| biography:
| English scholar. He entered Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1546, and became a fellow; he is known to have staged plays there. He was probably the author of one of the two earliest surviving English comedies in verse, Gammer Gurton's Needle (1553), sometimes attributed to John Still or John Bridges (the other being Ralph Roister Doister, also written in 1553 and attributed to Nicholas Udall). |
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