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written towards the end of his life, but not published until 1881, he laments that "notwithstanding . . . Industry . . . he was forct to take a napp at Beggars Bushe", and elsewhere he refers to "being becalmde in a fogg of necessity" having been passed over by "Credit" and "Opinion". It seems likely
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include references to speaking Spanish which are only meaningful in the context of Dekker's play; this suggests that the Dekker play is the original, a possibility reinforced by the consideration that there is no known edition of
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and even two shillings, that he obtained from Henslowe. Little is known of his life beyond these small details, and disparaging references by Ben Jonson in 1618/19, describing him, (with Dekker and
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in Southwark 1599. If so it does not seem have to interrupted his career; he continued to collaborate with writers such as Henry Chettle, who had written with Porter.
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The six dramas by Day which we possess show a delicate fancy and dainty inventiveness all his own. He preserved, in a great measure, the dramatic tradition of
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is the work on which Day's reputation chiefly rests. The piece contains much for which parallel passages are found in Thomas Dekker's
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from a manuscript of Day's. Considerations partly based on this work have suggested that he had a share in the anonymous
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of a type that hearkened back to the early decades of the public stage in London. In 1608 Day published two comedies,
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However his almost incessant activity does not seem to have paid, to judge by the small loans, of five
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His works, edited by Bullen, were printed at the Chiswick Press in 1881. The same editor included
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sermon is a curious anticipation of the eloquence of Mr. Chadband in
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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that he was the "John Daye, yeoman" who killed fellow dramatist
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Hotson, Leslie M., "The Adventure of a Single Rapier",
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The first play in which Day appears as part-author is
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The Conquest of Brute, with the finding of the Bath
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The passages which echo 89: 39:This article includes a list of general 543:English male dramatists and playwrights 485: 423: 25: 258:, which detailed the adventures of 234:notes in Manasses's burlesque of a 136:'s playwrights, collaborating with 16:16th/17th-century English dramatist 13: 354:were noted and warmly extolled by 45:it lacks sufficient corresponding 14: 559: 523:17th-century English male writers 518:16th-century English male writers 396:, 1888), with an introduction by 316:, and affected a kind of subdued 206:The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green 508:People from Broadland (district) 445: 30: 503:English Renaissance dramatists 417: 365: 350:. The beauty and ingenuity of 1: 548:People educated at King's Ely 438: 528:17th-century English writers 7: 429:A Cambridge Alumni Database 341:The Pilgrimage to Parnassus 212:. It bore the sub-title of 10: 564: 431:. University of Cambridge. 402:Algernon Charles Swinburne 270:. This play is a dramatic 232:Algernon Charles Swinburne 18: 302:The Noble Spanish Soldier 297:The Noble Spanish Soldier 167:) as a "rogue" and (with 21:John Day (disambiguation) 411: 373:The Maid's Metamorphosis 327:The Maid's Metamorphosis 195: 130:Caius College, Cambridge 468:Encyclopædia Britannica 378:Collection of Old Plays 111: 60:more precise citations. 406:The Nineteenth Century 382:The Parliament of Bees 352:The Parliament of Bees 307:The Parliament of Bees 287:The Parliament of Bees 94: 400:. 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Elizabethan
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Philip Henslowe
Henry Chettle
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Thomas Dekker
Richard Hathwaye
Wentworth Smith
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Edward Sharpham
Thomas Middleton
Gervase Markham
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Henry Porter
Henry VI
The Isle of Gulls
Sir Philip Sidney
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