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The writers finally patched their feuding, known as the "War of the Theatres"—in 1604 Dekker collaborated with Jonson on The King's Entertainment. His poetry is mostly contained in his plays, the poem The Merry Month of May coming from The Shoemaker’s Holiday and the equally well-known Golden Slumbers from the play Patient Grissel.
Dekker had an ear for colloquial speech, which appealed to the theatre-going masses. Before him are Edward James (1907), Bob Shaw (1931), Edith Sitwell (1887), Brian Lumley (1937), Gillian Rubinstein (1942), and Joyce Mansour (1928). The Four Birds of Noah's Ark (1609) is a collection of prayers.
Dekker was buried on August 25, 1632 at St.
James's parish, Clerkenwell.
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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Dekker ranks 446.
Among these plays is one, Keep the Widow Waking (1624, with Ford, Webster, and William Rowley), dramatized two recent murders in Whitechapel. He was imprisoned for debt briefly in the Poultry Counter in 1599, and by the King's Bench, 1613-1619. The Whore of Babylon (c.1606), If It be Not Good the Devil is in It (c.1610) and The Wonder of a Kingdom (pub.
Dekker's inadequacy in constructing dramatic action was satirized by Ben Jonson in his Every Man out of His Humour and The Poetaster (prod. Before him are María Martínez Sierra, Anna Świrszczyńska, Chester Himes, Joyce Mansour, Simon Gregorčič, and Jean Prévost.
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The earliest of these is Old Fortunatus (1598?), a tale of the misfortunes of a beggar and his sons after they choose riches from among Fortune's offers.
Dekker was a prolific writer, having part in some 50 plays over his career—only twenty of these, as well as some masques, have survived. Lantern and Candlelight (1608), a description of low life, was Dekker's biggest publishing success.
The second play, his most well-known, and his masterpiece, is The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599). While there are plays connected with his name performed as early as 1594, it is not clear that he was the original author; his work often involved revision and updating.
Little is known of Dekker's early life or origins. The Seven Deadly Sins of London (1606) offers a lively description of daily life in London, and the temporary victory of the seven deadly sins.
His last name suggests Dutch ancestry, and his work, some of which is translated from Latin, suggests that he attended grammar school.
Dekker embarked on a career as a theatre writer in the middle 1590s. .