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Definition of Thomas Dekker
1. Noun. English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas Dekker
Literary usage of Thomas Dekker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"On the authority of Henslowe, this production is therefore assigned to Thomas
Dekker, and I cannot discover from the " Diary" that any other dramatist was ..."
2. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1849)
"On the authority of Henslowe, this production is therefore assigned to Thomas
Dekker, and I cannot discover from the " Diary" that any other dramatist was ..."
3. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"... Thomas Dekker THE SHOEMAKERS' HOLIDAY Thomas Dekker (c. 1570-1637 or later) «ra»
a Londoner, possibly of Dutch descent. His name first appears early in ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"... on 27 Oct. 1594; a daughter of ' Thomas Dekker ' was buried there in 1598 ;
and a son of ' Thomas Dekker' was buried in 1598 at St. Botolph's, ..."
5. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1916)
"... Thomas Dekker. [!Na tract dated 1637, Dekker speaks of himself as a man of
threescore years. This is the only clue to his age that has been discovered. ..."
6. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1893)
"Thomas Dekker refers to himself in two of his prose works * as born in London;
and in the dedication of one of his last books, published in 1637, ..."
7. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1889)
"Thomas Dekker. Dekker was fellow of Peele and of the rest; ... There are traces
not only of a Dickens flavor * Thomas Dekker, b. about 1568 ; d. about 1640. ..."
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