"A study devoted to a. unified account of Dekker's life and personality. "The object has been to collect scattered material, including that furnished by Dekker himself, which has been much neglected, to arrange that material in chronological order, and to arrive at an understanding of the man." The chapters following the introduction are: Early life; The earliest plays: With Henslowe, 1598-1609; The quarrel with Jonson; the close of the Henslowe period, 1601-1602; The influence of Middleton; The period of prose, 1610-1619; ...
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"A study devoted to a. unified account of Dekker's life and personality. "The object has been to collect scattered material, including that furnished by Dekker himself, which has been much neglected, to arrange that material in chronological order, and to arrive at an understanding of the man." The chapters following the introduction are: Early life; The earliest plays: With Henslowe, 1598-1609; The quarrel with Jonson; the close of the Henslowe period, 1601-1602; The influence of Middleton; The period of prose, 1610-1619; plays, imprisonment; The last years; Conclusion; Bibliographical note; Index." - The Athenaeum "There was a need of a monograph such as Mary Leland Hunt has given us. A certain sentimentalism which pervades the book betrays the feminine hand, but the work is thoroughly done and marks and an advance on anything that had previously been written on the subject." - The Nation
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