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| Thomas Dekker |
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| c,1570–1632, English dramatist and pamphleteer. Little is known of his life except that he frequently suffered from poverty and served several prison terms for debt. He began his literary career c.1598 working for Philip Henslowe. During this period he wrote his most famous play, The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1600), a delightful domestic comedy concerning the success of Simon Eyre, a master shoemaker who becomes the lord mayor of London.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  d k´ rfrom The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Harvard Classics, Vol. XLVII, Part 1.
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- Bartlett’s Dekker Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Dekker, Thomas, 15977 to 15980
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT DEKKER
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- “Thomas Dekker”
Sections from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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