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 | | Lyly, John (?1554-1606): novelist, dramatist; Magdalene, Oxford (1571-3); by 1580 serving the Earl of Oxford, later managing a company of boy actors under Oxford's name; 1583-4 leased the Blackfriars Theatre; wrote retorts to the Martin Marprelate pamphlets of 1589, 1593, 1598, 1601, with Nashe; 'university wit' with Greene, Marlowe, Peele, Watson. |
 | | Massinger, Phillip (1583-1640): dramatist; confidential servant to Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke; St Alban Hall, Oxford (-1606); wrote plays after ?1616; contributed to Shakespeare's Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen; collaborated with Dekker, Fetcher and Nathan Field. |
 | | Percy, William (1575-1648): third son of the 8th Earl of Northumberland; poet, dramatist; Gloucester Hall, Oxford (1589); friend of the poet Barnabe Barnes; written five comedies and The Fairy Pastoral for Paul's Boys or adult actors by the end of Elizabeth's reign. |
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