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Hales, John

Hales, John (1584–1656),
English scholar. Gildon (1694) and Rowe (1709) report an old debate at Eton, on Shakespeare's superiority to the Ancients. Contestants included Sir John Suckling, William Davenant, Endymion Porter, Hales himself, and Ben Jonson. Gildon makes Hales the initiator; Rowe, Ben Jonson. Whatever the cause, Shakespeare's reputation triumphed.

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