• George Peele (baptised 25 July 1556 – death date uncertain) was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed but not...
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    A Farewell to Arms is an occasional sonnet written by George Peele. It is the coda of Peele's Polyhymnia, written for the Accession Day tilt of 1590....
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  • with the surname Peele include: Amanda E. Peele (1903–1978), American biologist Beverly Peele (b. 1975), fashion model George Peele (1556-1596), the English...
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    Greene, and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge, and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele from Oxford. Thomas Kyd is also sometimes included in the group, though...
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    and George Peele. The play contains several gibes at Scotland and the Scottish people, which has led some critics to suggest that it incited George Nicholson...
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    Bale written 1540s (?) The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England George Peele (?) / Shakespeare (?) written c. 1588; published 1591 The Life and Death...
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  • taken from a 16th‑century poem of the same name by the English dramatist George Peele. The novel has been adapted a number of times: initially for the stage...
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  • instruments in there". One couplet in the song is adapted from a poem by George Peele, part of his play The Old Wives' Tale (printed 1595). Another may be...
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    comedian, producer and writer. He and Jordan Peele co-created and co-starred in the sketch series Key & Peele (2012–2015) for which he received one Primetime...
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  • Greene's Arcadia (1587), Roydon is mentioned with Thomas Achlow and George Peele as leading London poets. Francis Meres, in his Palladis Tamia (1598)...
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    means to be human. What Marlowe and Kyd did for tragedy, John Lyly and George Peele, among others, did for comedy: they offered models of witty dialogue...
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  • Beverly Peele (born March 18, 1975) is an American model and actress. Peele rose to fame in the late 1980s and 1990s, as a supermodel, working with Naomi...
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    Titus Andronicus (category Plays by George Peele)
    Robertson in 1905, who concluded that "much of the play is written by George Peele, and it is hardly less certain that much of the rest was written by Robert...
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    Shortly thereafter, in his Honour of the Garter dated 26 June 1593, George Peele referred to him as "Gentle Wriothesley, Southampton's star", claiming...
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    above all an admired and influential artist. Within weeks of his death, George Peele remembered him as "Marley, the Muses' darling"; Michael Drayton noted...
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    (1874). The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele. Vol. I. London: George Routledge and Sons. p. 57. Retrieved 24 August 2013. Fleay...
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    questioned as Titus. The principal contender for the co-authorship is George Peele. The fact that Titus traditionally has the reputation of being Shakespeare's...
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    David and Bethsabe (category Plays by George Peele)
    The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe is a play by George Peele, based on the biblical story of David, Bathsheba, and Absalom in 2 Samuel. Probably...
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  • mentioned in a 19th-century nursery rhyme. The play The Old Wives' Tale by George Peele, first published in 1595, has a reference to "cockle-bread". The editor...
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  • The Battle of Alcazar (category Plays by George Peele)
    The Battle of Alcazar is a play attributed to George Peele, perhaps written no later than late 1591 if the play "Muly Molucco" mentioned in Henslowe's...
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    King David and Fair Bethsabe, with the Tragedie of Absalon, a play by George Peele, written before 1594 and published in 1599. Absalom and Achitophel (1681)...
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    1580s and 1590s like Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, George Peele, and Thomas Lodge, as one of the so-called University Wits. He has been...
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  • Michael Drayton, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Anthony Munday, George Peele, Walter Raleigh, Henry Constable, William Shakespeare, Edward de Vere...
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    Bathsheba receives David's letter 1588 David and Bethsabe, a play by George Peele 1874 The story of Bathsheba, David and Uriah is echoed in Thomas Hardy's...
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    Thomas Norton George Peele William Percy John Phillip John Pickering (dramatist) Henry Porter Thomas Preston Samuel Rowley William Rowley George Ruggle Joseph...
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  • Peacham drawing Authorship question Themes "Titus Andronicus' Complaint" George Peele Philomela Thyestes Revenge play Grand Guignol Gorboduc (1561) Edmund...
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  • Campaspe Sapho and Phao George Peele – The Arraignment of Paris Robert Wilson – The Three Ladies of London (published) 1588 George Peele – The Battle of Alcazar...
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  • The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First (category Plays by George Peele)
    and rose againe at Pottershith, now named Queenehith. is a play by George Peele, published 1593, chronicling the career of Edward I of England. A quarto...
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    are thought to have had Alleyn in leading roles, including plays by George Peele such as The Battle of Alcazar. In a private letter, he mocked himself...
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  • The Old Wives' Tale (play) (category Plays by George Peele)
    The Old Wives' Tale is a play by George Peele first printed in England in 1595. The play has been identified as the first English work to satirize the...
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