John+Webster

=John Webster= John Webster (c.1580 – c.1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare. Webster's life is obscure, and the dates of his birth and death are not known. His father, a coach maker also named John Webster, married a blacksmith's daughter named Elizabeth Coates on 4 November 1577, and it is likely that Webster was born not long after in or near London. On 1 August 1598, "John Webster, lately of the New Inn" was admitted to the Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court; in view of the legal interests evident in his dramatic work; this is possibly the playwright. Webster married the 17-year-old Sara Peniall on 18 March 1606, and their first child, John, was baptized at the parish of St Dunstan-in-the-West on 8 May 1606. Bequests in the will of a neighbour who died in 1617 indicate that other children were born to him. Most of what is otherwise known of him relates to his theatrical activities. Webster was still writing plays as late as the mid-1620s, but Thomas Heywood's Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels (licensed 7 November 1634) speaks of him in the past tense, implying he was then dead. [[]] John Webster

List of plays by Webster: //The Devil's Law Case// (c. 1617-1619) //Anything for a Quiet Life// (c. 1621), co-written with Thomas Middleton //A Cure for a Cuckold// (c. 1624), co-written with William Rowley //Keep the Widow Waking (//c. 1624) (with John Ford, Rowley and Dekker) //The Fair Maid of the Inn// with John Fletcher, Ford, and Phillip Massinger //His Appius and Virginia//, probably written with Thomas Heywood

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