Playwright. Born London, probably in in a house on the corner of Ironmonger Lane and Cateaton Street (now Gresham Street). Baptized on 18 April 1580 in St Lawrence Jewry. He collaborated with a number of other dramatists including Shakespeare. With William Rowley co-wrote The Changeling which is his most well-known play and still performed. From at least 1608 he lived with his wife and family in Newington Butts where he died.
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Thomas Middleton
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St Marys Newington - Middleton
Thomas Middleton was an Elizabethean {sic} playwright and poet who collaborat...
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Siegfried Sassoon
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Khalil Gibran
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Canon Richard Watson Dixon
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Rhymers' Club
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Eric Mackay
The Wikipedia entry for Mackay is worth a read - it's short and not kind; describing him as a "minor' poet, and using terms such as "sponging", "execrable", "laziness and lack of scruples" and repe...
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