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Also Known As John Kingsley Orton
Born January 1, 1933 • Leicester • England
Died August 9, 1967 (aged 34) • London • England
Notable Works “Entertaining Mr. Sloane” • “Loot” • “What the Butler Saw”
P.G. Wodehouse, 1945.
P.G. Wodehouse
British author
Elizabeth Inchbald
English author and actress
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
George Colman, the Younger, engraving by T.G. Lupton after a painting by John Jackson
George Colman, the Younger
English playwright
Mathews, Charles James
Charles James Mathews
English writer and comedian
A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
British author
Pinero, detail of an oil painting by J. Mordecai, 1891; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
British dramatist
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Richard Steele
British author and politician
John Fletcher, engraving
John Fletcher
English dramatist
John Marston
British dramatist
Philip Massinger.
Philip Massinger
English playwright
Nicholas Udall
English writer
Thomas Middleton, engraving
Thomas Middleton
English dramatist
Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Thomas Otway
English author
John Lyly
English writer
Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir John Suckling
English poet and dramatist
Robert Armin
English actor
Samuel Foote
British actor