Thomas Dekker (1) (–1632)
Author of The Shoemaker's Holiday
For other authors named Thomas Dekker, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Dekker was a popular, prolific writer who had a hand in at least 40 plays, which he wrote for Philip Henslowe, the theatrical entrepreneur. In the plays that seem to be completely by Dekker, he shows himself as a realist of London life, but even his most realistic plays have a strong undertone of show more romantic themes and aspirations. The Shoemaker's Holiday (1600), for example, glorifies the gentle craft of the shoemaker, and the character Simon Eyre speaks in an extravagant, hyperbolic style that is far from realistic. Dekker also wrote such prose pamphlets as the Bellman of London (1608) and The Gull's Hornbook (1609), the latter an entertaining account of the behavior of a country yokel and dupe in London. He died in debt. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Engraving from the title page of "Dekker's Dream" -- the closest we have to a portrait of Thomas Dekker.
Works by Thomas Dekker
The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies [The Shoemaker's Holiday, Every Man In His Humour, Eastward Ho!] (Oxford… (2001) 87 copies
Plays On Women: Anon, Arden of Faversham; Middleton and Dekker, The Roaring Girl; Middleton, A Chaste Maid in… (1999) 21 copies
The dramatic works of Thomas Dekker. 1, Sir Thomas More: Dekker's addition. The shoemakers' holiday. Old Fortunatus.… (1953) 8 copies
The dramatic works of Thomas Dekker. 2, The honest whore, part 1 (with Thomas Middleton). The honest whore, part 2. Th… (1955) 7 copies
The Honest Whore, Part I 5 copies
The Honest Whore, Part II 5 copies
The Welsh embassador 5 copies
Westward Ho 3 copies
The virgin-martyr 3 copies
A Critical Old-spelling Edition of Thomas Dekker's "Blurt, Master Constable" (1602) (Salzburg Studies: Jacobean Drama… (1979) 3 copies
Mermaid Series (14 vols) 2 copies
Northward Ho 2 copies
The Non-dramatic works of Thomas Dekker, volume I : Canaan's Calamitie; The Wonderful Yeare; The Batchelars Banquet (2008) 1 copy
Lanthorne and candle-light, or the bell-mans second nights walke, in which hee brings to light ... 1 copy
Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker Volume I: Sir Thomas More: Dekker's Addition, the Shoemaker's Holiday, Old… (1953) 1 copy
Old Fortunatus, 1600 1 copy
The Dramatic Works Of Thomas Dekker V2: The Honest Whore; The Whore Of Babylon; Westward Hoe (2007) 1 copy
The cold yeare, 1614. A deepe snow: in which men and cattell have perished ... Written dialogue-wise, etc (1615) 1 copy
Thomas Dekker: The Wonderful Year; The Gull's Horn-Book; Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish; English Villainies... (1968) 1 copy
A concordance to the dramatic works of Thomas Dekker, 5 volumes — Contributor — 1 copy
London's Tempe 1 copy
Britannia's Honour 1 copy
The Sun's Darling 1 copy
Troia-Nova Triumphans 1 copy
Satiromastix 1 copy
The Non-Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, Vol. 2 of 5: For the First Time Collected and Edited With… (2015) 1 copy
The owles almanacke 1 copy
Wonderful Year 1603 1 copy
Associated Works
Elizabethan Drama, Volume II: Dekker; Jonson; Beaumont and Fletcher; Webster; Massinger (1909) — Contributor — 196 copies
Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays: Sophonsiba, The Witch, The Witch of Edmonton (1986) — Contributor — 39 copies
"Nest of Ninnies" and Other English Jestbooks of the Seventeenth Century (1970) — Contributor — 7 copies
Characters : together with poems, news, edicts, and paradoxes based on the eleventh edition of A wife now the widow of… (2002) — Contributor, some editions — 2 copies
The Ancient British drama, in three volumes — Contributor — 2 copies
The English scholar's library of old and modern works, 3 volumes — Contributor — 1 copy
Illustrations of Old English Literature. 3 Volumes — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- ca. 1572
- Date of death
- 1632-08-25
- Burial location
- St. James's Church, Clerkenwell, London, England, UK
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- England
- Birthplace
- London, England
- Place of death
- London, England
- Places of residence
- London, England
- Occupations
- Playwright
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