John Fletcher, baptized on 20 December 1579 and buried on 29 August 1625, was one of the most successful, inventive, and influential dramatists of England’s Jacobean age. Though he is now less familiar to general readers than William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, or Christopher Marlowe, Fletcher was for generations among the most frequently performed writers in the English language. In the decades after his death, audienc…
“If you be not reasonably assured of your knowledge in this kind of poem, lay down the book, or read this, which I would wish had been the prologue.”
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William Shakespeare was baptized on 26 April 1564 in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, and tradition places his birth three days earlier, on about 23 April. He died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in the same church where he had been baptized. Between those dates lies a life that is at once unusually well documented for a non-nobleman of the Elizabethan age and persistently elusive in its inward…
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Dramatic Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Love Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
