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Born 1554? • Kent • England
Died November 1606 • London • England
Notable Works “Endimion” • “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit” • “Euphues and His England” • “Gallathea”
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
English author and statesman
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
Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir John Suckling
English poet and dramatist
Mathews, Charles James
Charles James Mathews
English writer and comedian
A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
British author
Robert Armin
English actor
William Rowley
English dramatist and actor
Thomas Heywood
English actor and playwright
P.G. Wodehouse, 1945.
P.G. Wodehouse
British author