Happy Saturday! I’m back with another post about one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries and this time we’re looking at John Ford. Ford actually started his dramatic career after Shakespeare’s death but he was a Jacobean playwright so I’m including him in this series. Where possible, I’ve linked to free versions of each text. Some links are… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: John Ford (Shakespeare’s Contemporaries #9)
Happy Saturday! It has been a couple of months since I wrote about one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries but I’m back today with a post about Thomas Dekker. Enjoy… Thomas Dekker (c.1572 – 1632) was an English dramatist and pamphleteer. His career spanned both the late Elizabethan era, the entire Jacobean era, and the early years… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Thomas Dekker (Shakespeare’s Contemporaries #8)
Happy Saturday! I have three favourite playwrights from the early modern era: Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, and Thomas Middleton. I haven’t written about any of them yet in this series about Shakespeare’s contemporaries, which is a shame, but I’m correcting that error today by focusing on the life and work of Thomas Middleton. I’m also… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Thomas Middleton (Shakespeare’s Contemporaries #7)
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)
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. Philip Massinger was baptised on the 24th of November 1583 and he was the son of a gentleman, Arthur Massinger (or Messanger because… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Philip Massinger (Shakespeare’s Contemporaries #4)
I missed Shakespeare Saturday last week. To be honest, I’ve missed a lot of my usual posts recently but I’m back to talk about John Lyly. Never heard of him? Don’t worry. This post is an introduction to who he was… John Lyly was an English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier. He was born in… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: John Lyly (Shakespeare’s Contemporaries #3)
A few weeks ago I started a new mini series about Shakespeare’s contemporaries and this week I’m continuing with Thomas Kyd, who is more of a predecessor of Shakespeare but was still around at the beginning of Shakespeare’s career. Thomas Kyd, born sometime in 1558, was the son of a scrivener. He received a good… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Thomas Kyd (Shakespeare’s Contemporaries #2)
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