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Thomas Dekker Playwright

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: England
  • Born: Jan 1, 1572
  • Died: Aug 25, 1632

Thomas Dekker was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. wisdom

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. health

Were there no women, men might live like gods. women

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