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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.
Thomas Dekker (born c. 1572, London, Eng.—died c. 1632) 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.
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Apr 10, 2012 · Dekker wrote more than forty plays for The Admiral's Men, many of which are lost. His works include collaborating on Shakespeare's Sir Thomas More, Old Fortunatas and Satiromastix. He collaborated with Thomas Middleton on The Honest Whore and The Roaring Girl, and with John Webster wrote Westward Ho and Northward Ho.
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.
Overview. Thomas Dekker. (c. 1572—1632) playwright and pamphleteer. Quick Reference. (?1572–1632), was born and mainly lived in London. He suffered from poverty and was several times imprisoned for debt.
Thomas Dekker was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer. He is remembered as a prolific and versatile writer whose work offers a fascinating glimpse into the London of his time. Dekker's body of work encompasses a wide range of genres, including comedies, tragedies, histories, and satirical pamphlets.
A writer such as Thomas Dekker, so prolific in output, necessarily produces a lot of chaff with his wheat. His plays often lack tightly knit plots and carefully proportioned form; his prose...
