John Webster (Critical Survey of Drama)
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John Webster wrote a few short poems, including commendatory verses to accompany publications by other poets and an elegy on the death of Prince Henry, heir to the English throne, entitled “A Monumental Column.” In prose, he is believed to have written the thirty-two new character sketches that appeared in Sir Thomas Overbury’s sixth edition of New and Choice Characters of Several Authors in 1615, including the famous one entitled “Excellent Actor.” He also wrote a pageant, “Monuments of Honor,” for the procession of John Gore, the lord...
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