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- The Shoemaker's Holiday 143 copies, 2 reviews
- The Roaring Girl (New Mermaids) (Author) 139 copies, 2 reviews
- The Witch of Edmonton 92 copies, 1 review
- Sir Thomas More (Author) 66 copies
- The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies [The Shoemaker's Holiday, Every… 62 copies
- Thomas Dekker 29 copies, 2 reviews
- The Wonderful Year 1603 23 copies
- A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays (Oxford World's… 21 copies, 1 review
- Plays On Women: Anon, Arden of Faversham; Middleton and Dekker, The… (Author) 16 copies
- The Gull's Hornbook 13 copies
- Elizabethan and Jacobean comedies 12 copies
- The seven deadly sinnes of London 12 copies
- The Honest Whore, Parts One and Two 12 copies
- The Noble Spanish Soldier 10 copies, 1 review
- English Poetry, Volume I: From Chaucer to Gray (Contributor) 340 copies
- English Renaissance Drama (Contributor) 182 copies, 1 review
- Elizabethan Drama, Volume II: Dekker; Jonson; Beaumont and Fletcher;… (Contributor) 144 copies
- Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays (Contributor, some editions) 124 copies, 1 review
- The Standard Book of British and American Verse (Contributor) 81 copies, 1 review
- Four Great Elizabethan Plays (Contributor) 50 copies
- Six plays by contemporaries of Shakespeare (Contributor) 50 copies
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete First Season 46 copies, 2 reviews
- Four Famous Tudor and Stuart Plays (Contributor) 43 copies
- The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (Contributor) 42 copies
- Six Elizabethan Plays: 1585-1635 (Author) 42 copies
- The chief Elizabethan dramatists, excluding Shakespeare (Contributor) 39 copies, 1 review
- Five Elizabethan Tragedies (Contributor) 38 copies
- Elizabethan Drama: Eight Plays (Contributor) 33 copies
- Five Elizabethan Comedies (Author) 32 copies
- Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays: Sophonsiba, The Witch, The Witch of… (Contributor) 29 copies
- William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (The RSC Shakespeare) (Contributor) 26 copies
- The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock [Videorecording] (Voice) 23 copies
- Journeys Through Bookland - Volume 1 (Author, some editions) 22 copies, 1 review
- Classic Essays in English (Contributor) 21 copies
- Sweet Revenge: 10 Plays of Bloody Murder (Contributor) 13 copies
- "Nest of Ninnies" and Other English Jestbooks of the Seventeenth Century (Contributor) 7 copies
- Jacobean Civic Pageants (Renaissance Texts & Studies) (Contributor) 5 copies
- Early English Plays, 900-1600 (Contributor) 4 copies
- The Ancient British drama, in three volumes (Contributor) 2 copies
- Characters : together with poems, news, edicts, and paradoxes based on the… (Contributor, some editions) 2 copies
- From Within [2008 Movie] (Actor) 2 copies
- Illustrations of Old English Literature. 3 Volumes (Contributor) 1 copy
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Canonical name | | Legal name | | Other names | | Date of birth | | Date of death | | Burial location | | Gender | | Nationality | | Country (for map) | | Birthplace | | Place of death | | Places of residence | | Education | | Occupations | | Relationships | | Organizations | | Awards and honors | | Agents | | Short biography | Thomas Dekker, an Elizabethan playwright and pamphleteer, had a versatile and prolific career. He collaborated with many of the period's most famous dramatists, such as Ben Jonson and John Webster, among others. Dekker's lifelong problems with debt caused him imprisonment on several occasions, once for a period of seven years, though he continued writing throughout.  | |
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Improve this authorCombine/separate worksAuthor divisionThomas Dekker is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. IncludesThomas Dekker is composed of 4 names. You can examine and separate out names. Combine with…
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