Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...
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29 December 1621: The Witch of Edmonton, a tragicomedy collaboratively...
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29 December 1621
The Witch of Edmonton, a tragicomedy collaboratively written by Thomas Dekker
, John Ford
, William Rowley
and others, had its first specifically recorded performance, among the Court's Christmas entertainments; it had reached the...
1633: Dramatist John Ford published a particularly...
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1633
Dramatist John Ford
published a particularly violent and disturbing tragedy entitled 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
