Definition of Dekker

1. Noun. English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632).

Exact synonyms: Decker, Thomas Decker, Thomas Dekker
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright, Pamphleteer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dekker

Deiters
Deiters' cells
Deiters' nucleus
Deiters' terminal frames
Dejerine
Dejerine's disease
Dejerine's hand phenomenon
Dejerine's reflex
Dejerine's sign
Dejerine-Klumpke
Dejerine-Klumpke palsy
Dejerine-Klumpke syndrome
Dejerine-Lichtheim phenomenon
Dejerine-Roussy syndrome
Dejerine-Sottas disease
Dekker (current term)
Del
Del Boy
Del Castillo
Del Rio
Delacroix
Delafield
Delafield's haematoxylin
Delairea
Delairea odorata
Delaney
Delaney clause
Delaware
Delaware Bay

Literary usage of Dekker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"••i> name first appears early in 1598 in the •liary of Philip Henslowe, proprietor of the !."-<• and Fortune theaters. Dekker was one of the most prolific ..."

2. Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley by William Minto (1891)
"The skirmish between Marston, Jonson, and Dekker, is one of the most famous “quarrels of authors.” Who gave the first offence is a matter of dispute: Jonson ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"As a dramatist, Dekker was most active between the years 1598 and 1602. ... < The Shoemaker's Holiday,' published in 1599, shows Dekker on his genial, ..."

4. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"Thi Players who acted in "The Shoemakers' Holiday," 1600, a Comedy by Thomas Dekker and Robert Wilson. At p. 154 of " Henslowe's Diary," edited by the ..."

5. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1849)
"XL—Th6 Play erg who acted in " The Shoemakers' Holiday" 1600, a Comedy by Thomas Dekker and Robert Wilson. At p. 154 of " Henslowe's Diary," edited by the ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"an allusion to his Shoemaker'г Holiday,—from which it would appear that Dekker prided himself on his powers of observation. The less is included in the ..."

7. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1889)
"Thomas Dekker. Dekker was fellow of Peele and of the rest; * he quarrelled bitterly with Ben Jonson—they beating each other vilely with bad words, ..."

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