I’m back with another post about a contemporary of Shakespeare! This week I’m looking at the life and work of William Rowley. William Rowley (c.1585 – 1626) was an English Jacobean dramatist. I couldn’t find much information about William Rowley’s early life – even his date of birth is an estimate – so I’ll just move on… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: William Rowley (Shakespeare’s Contemporaries #6)

I’m really enjoying these posts about Shakespeare’s contemporaries. No-one else cares but I like the surface level research I’m doing – I never knew reading biographies and whatnot could be so interesting. Francis Beaumont, born 1584, was the son of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace Dieu, near Thringstone in Leicestershire, who was a justice of… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Francis Beaumont (Shakespeare’s Contemporaries #5)