Thomas Dekker (writer)

Thomas Dekker, Thomas Decker and Thomas Dekkar, (* 1572 in London, † August 25, 1632 ) was an English playwright.

Life

According to the current state of research is on childhood and youth Dekkers little backed up. He began to write pieces for various stages in the last years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. In 1595 he made ​​his debut with his play Old Fortunatus or the wishing -cap.

This piece was also the artistic breakthrough, so that soon other comedies were staged by him; e.g. Phaeton (1597 ) or The honest whore ( 1598 ). From the start, Dekker employees of some other playwrights such as Ben Jonson, John Marston, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, Frederick Pickergill, William Rowley and John Webster. This led to the authorship of individual texts can not be determined beyond all doubt now.

With the figure Crispin in his play Poetaster (1600) Jonson mocked his colleagues Dekker; but got it from this piece with its Satiromastix (1602 ) in the same coin back. Already in the following year wrote Dekker along with Jonson occasion of the coronation festivities in honor of King James I. The magnificent entertainment givenName to King James upon his passage through London.

In addition to his plays Dekker also published pamphlets such as The wonderful year ( 1603), The bellman of London ( 1608) and The Gull's hornbook or fashions to please all sorts of gulls (1609 ).

At the age of about 60 years, the writer Thomas Dekker died on August 25 in 1632., He found his final resting place in the cemetery of St. James, Clerkenwell.

It took about forty years, until there was a publisher of a first complete edition of Thomas Dekker.

Works

  • Dramatic Works, CUP, Cambridge 1980 1 - The shoemaker's holiday. Old Fortunatus. Patient Grissil. Satiromastix. Sir Thomas Wyatt. ISBN 0-521-21786-5.
  • 2 - The honest whore. The magnificent entertainment. Westward Ho Northward Ho The whore of Babylone. ISBN 0-521-21894-2.
  • 3 - The roaring girl. If this be not a good play. The devil is in it. Troy nova triumphans. Match me in London. The virgin martyr. The witch of Edmonton. The wonder of a kingdom. ISBN 0-521-22336-9.
  • 4 - The sun 's darling. Britannia 's honor. London 's temper. Lust 's dominion. The noble Spanish soldier. The welsch embassador. ISBN 0-521-22506- X.
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