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Born 1595
Died November 13, 1650 (aged 55) • London • England
Notable Works “Pharsalia”
Subjects Of Study Long Parliament
Nicholas Udall
English writer
Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
British critic and writer
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet
Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Detail of a portrait thought to be of Christopher Marlowe, dated 1585, artist unknown; in the collection of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Christopher Marlowe
English writer
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Thomas Lodge
English writer
Thomas Shadwell, engraving.
Thomas Shadwell
English author
Eric Bentley
American critic, translator, and stage director
Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet
English writer
Sidney Godolphin
English poet
Laurence Binyon
English scholar and poet
Anne Ridler
British writer