Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – 25 August 1632) was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several...
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Thomas Dekker may refer to: Thomas Dekker (writer) (c. 1572–1632), Elizabethan poet and dramatist Thomas Dekker (actor) (born 1987), American film and...
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The Stepmother's Tragedy (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
The Stepmother's Tragedy is a play written by Henry Chettle and Thomas Dekker. It is mentioned in Philip Henslowe's diary in August 1599. No extant copies...
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footballer Thomas Dekker (writer) (c. 1572 – 1632), English writer Thomas Dekker (cyclist) (born 1984), Dutch racing cyclist Thomas Dekker (actor) (born...
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Thomas Alexander Dekker (born December 28, 1987) is an American actor, musician, singer, director and producer. He is known for his roles as John Connor...
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Thomas Albert Ecke Van Dekker (December 20, 1905 – May 5, 1968) was an American actor and politician known for his roles in Dr. Cyclops, The Killers (1946)...
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The Shoemaker's Holiday (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
Shoemaker's Holiday or the Gentle Craft is an Elizabethan play written by Thomas Dekker. The play was first performed in 1599 by the Admiral's Men, and it falls...
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The Merry Month of May (poem) (category Poetry by Thomas Dekker (writer))
is a poem by Thomas Dekker (c. 1572–1632), an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer. "The Merry Month of May" is a part of Dekker's play, The Shoemaker's...
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Patient Grissel (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
Patient Grissel is a play by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton, first printed in 1603. It is mentioned in Henslowe's diary in the entry...
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The London Prodigal (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
scholars have attributed the play to Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and Michael Drayton, Thomas Heywood, George Wilkins, and John Fletcher. None...
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The Roaring Girl (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker c. 1607–1610. The play was first published in quarto in 1611, printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Thomas Archer...
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The Witch of Edmonton (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
of Edmonton is an English Jacobean play, written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621. The play—"probably the most sophisticated treatment...
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The Wonderfull Yeare (category Works by Thomas Dekker (writer))
The Wonderfull Yeare is Thomas Dekker's first pamphlet, written and printed in 1603, the year of Queen Elizabeth's death, James I's accession, and an...
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Lust's Dominion (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
Renaissance stage play, a tragedy written perhaps around 1600, probably by Thomas Dekker in collaboration with others and first published in 1657. The play has...
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The Family of Love (play) (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
printed anonymously, many scholars have attributed it to Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. The play's authorship is complex; one scholar, Gerald J....
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The Honest Whore (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
parts; Part 1 is a collaboration between Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, while Part 2 is the work of Dekker alone. The plays were acted by the Admiral's...
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The Tragical History of Guy Earl of Warwick (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
author of Guy Earl of Warwick is not known, although Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker have been proposed. The play is about the adventures of legendary English...
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Multatuli (redirect from Eduard Douwes Dekker)
Dekker (2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tulī, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best...
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Westward Ho (play) (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
Hoe) is an early Jacobean-era stage play, a satire and city comedy by Thomas Dekker and John Webster that was first performed circa 1604. It had an unusual...
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The Merry Devil of Edmonton (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
Drayton or to Thomas Heywood; but their attributions have not been judged credible by other scholars. William Amos Abrams proposed Thomas Dekker as the play's...
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Blurt, Master Constable (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
printed anonymously in 1602 and usually attributed to either Thomas Middleton or Thomas Dekker. The subtitle of the play, "The Spaniards' Night Walk," together...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt is a history play published in 1607 and written in collaboration by John Webster and Thomas Dekker. It was probably first performed in...
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Satiromastix (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
Untrussing of the Humorous Poet is a late Elizabethan stage play by Thomas Dekker, one of the plays involved in the Poetomachia or War of the Theatres...
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Old Fortunatus (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
Old Fortunatus (1599) is a play in a mixture of prose and verse by Thomas Dekker, based on the German legend of Fortunatus and his magic inexhaustible...
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The Virgin Martyr (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
The Virgin Martyr is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragedy written by Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger, and first published in 1622. It constitutes a...
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early dramatic career was marked by controversy. His friendship with Thomas Dekker brought him into conflict with Ben Jonson and George Chapman in the...
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The Spanish Gypsy (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
collaboration between several dramatists, including Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, and John Ford. Like Shakespeare's lost play Cardenio...
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Anthony Munday (category 16th-century English male writers)
author of Sir Thomas More, on which he is believed to have collaborated with Henry Chettle, Thomas Heywood, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Dekker. He was once...
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Keep the Widow Waking (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
London—documents that include testimony by Thomas Dekker that Keep the Widow Waking was actually written by Dekker, Ford, Webster, and William Rowley. This...
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The Sun's Darling (category Plays by Thomas Dekker (writer))
Darling is a masque, or masque-like play, written by John Ford and Thomas Dekker, and first published in 1656. The Sun's Darling was licensed for performance...
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