Webster, John
Webster, John ( c. 1578 – c. 1626 ),the son of a prosperous London coachmaker of Smithfield. He was himself admitted by patrimony to the Merchant Taylors' Company, and combined the careers of coachmaker and playwright. He wrote several plays in collaboration with other dramatists; these include Westward Hoe and Northward Hoe , with Dekker , written 1604 and 1605 , both printed 1607 ; A Cure for a Cuckold (printed 1661 , written ?1625 ), probably with Rowley (and possibly Heywood ); and a lost play with Ford , Dekker , and Rowley , Keep the Widow Waking ( 1624 ). It has also been suggested that he had a hand in Middleton 's Anything for a Quiet Life ( 1661 , written ?1621 ) and Fletcher 's The Fair Maid of the Inn ( 1625 ). He expanded Marston's The Malcontent for the King's Men in 1604 , and published elegies...
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