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London, England. Died. 25 August 1632 (aged 60) London, England. Occupation. Writer. Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – 25 August 1632) was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.
The Shoemaker's Holiday or the Gentle Craft is an Elizabethan play written by Thomas Dekker. The play was first performed in 1599 by the Admiral's Men, and it falls into the subgenre of city comedy. The story features three subplots: an inter-class romance between a citizen of London and an aristocrat, the ascension of shoemaker Simon Eyre to ...
Their objections to the proposed marriage partners of their daughter and nephew are based not upon concern for their future happiness or even security, but in the “blood” of their family lines.
The date of his marriage is uncertain, but it is known that his wife, Mary, died in 1616. Dekker lived his life almost completely in London, first in Cripplegate and later in Clerkenwell. He...
Thomas Dekker was an English dramatist and writer of prose pamphlets who is particularly known for his lively depictions of London life. Few facts of Dekker’s life are certain. He may have been born into a family of Dutch immigrants living in London and is first mentioned as a playwright in 1598.
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lame Ralph’s wife, going to marry a gentleman, and then he’ll stop her instead of his daughter. O brave, there will be fine tickling sport. Soft now, what have I to do? O, I know –now a mess of shoemakers meet at the Woolsack in Ivy Lane to cozen my gentleman of lame Ralph’s wife, that’s true.
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Thomas Dekker is one of those Elizabethan playwrights about whose early life we don’t know much. His name suggests Dutch ancestry and it seems from clues he gives from time to time in his pamphlets that he was born in London in 1572.
