Thomas Dekker
Dekker, Thomas - c,1570–1632, English dramatist and pamphleteer. Little is known of his life except that he frequently suffered from poverty and served several prison terms for debt. He began his literary career c.1598 working for Philip Henslowe. During this period he wrote his most famous play, The Shoemaker's Holiday (1600), a delightful domestic comedy concerning the success of Simon Read More...
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Thomas Dekker's Political Commentary in 'The Whore of Babylon,' in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Susan E. Krantz. 21 pgs.
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The End(s) of Discord in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday,' in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Marta Straznicky. 16 pgs.
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Bethlem and Bridewell in the Honest Whore Plays, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Ken Jackson. 19 pgs.
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama (Chap. VI "John Marston-Thomas Dekker: Melodrama and Civic Comedy")
by Frederick S. Boas. 446 pgs.
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Jacobean Theatre (Discussion of Thomas Dekker begins on p. 63)
by John Russell Brown, Bernard Harris. 258 pgs.
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Prostitution in Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedy (Chap. III "The Puritan View: Thomas Dekker")
by Anne M. Haselkorn. 162 pgs.
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Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time (Discussion of Thomas Dekker begins on p. 135)
by Roslyn Lander Knutson. 198 pgs.
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Shakespeare's Contemporaries (Discussion of Thomas Dekker begins on p. 157)
by Max Bluestone, Norman Rabkin. 300 pgs.
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Cyclopedia of World Authors (Discussion of Thomas Dekker begins on p. 279)
by Frank N. Magill, Dayton Kohler. 1204 pgs.
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