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Dekker, Thomas - English
URL: http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/micro/163/78.html

Few facts of Dekker's life are certain. He is first mentioned as a playwright in 1598. He apparently wrote to support himself and had a hand in at least 42 plays written in the next 30 years.

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The Life of Thomas Dekker (1570?-1632) - English
URL: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/dekker/dekkerbio.htm

Of Dekker's life, nothing is known for certain before 1598 when his name appears in entries in Philip Henslowe's Diary. Even though Dekker had a steady stream of work with Henslowe, he was frequently in debt. He was imprisoned for debt briefly in the Poultry Counter in 1599, and by the King's Bench, 1613-1619.

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§24. Thomas Dekker. XVI. - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/214/1624.html

London and the Development of Popular Literature. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. Apart from his dramatic work, Dekker stands alone in this period. He is remarkable not as a satirist but as the first great literary artist of London street life. He discovered how to describe the city populace as a whole in its pursuits and agitations; but, as literature had not yet evolved a special medium for this portraiture, his gift finds expression only in a number of erratic and ephemeral tracts.

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Thomas Dekker: Monologues - English
URL: http://www.monologuearchive.com/d/dekker_thomas.html

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Thomas Dekker: Poems - English
URL: http://www.poetry-archive.com/d/dekker_thomas.html

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Thomas Dekker (c. 1570-1632) - English
URL: http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/dekker001.html

English dramatist, was born in London. His name occurs frequently in Henslowe's Diary during the last three years of the 16th century; he is mentioned there as receiving loans and payments for writing plays in conjunction with Ben Jonson, Drayton, Chettle, Haughton, Wilson, Day and others, and he would appear to have been then in the most active employment as a playwright.

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Thomas Dekker (1570-1632) - English
URL: http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc80.html

Thomas Dekker the dramatist--there are records of several contemporaries with this name--was born in London about 1570, but no details of his family relations or of his education are known. The first record of his work is a payment to him in January, 1598, as a member of Henslowe's group of dramatists.

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Thomas Dekker - English
URL: http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/thomas_dekker_001.html

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A biography of the Elizabethan dramatist.

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