Word: dekker
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Considering the antiquity of the piece, which was composed by Thomas Dekker in 1599, there is nothing halting about the movement and nothing uninteresting in the lines. One felt, however, that much had been cut out of the original play...
...summary of the play has been written by Dekker the author of the play. It is as follows: "Sir Hugh Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, had a young gentleman of his own name, his near kinsman, that loved the Lord Mayor's daughter; to prevent and cross which love, the Earl caused his kinsman to be sent as colonel of a company into France; he resigned his place to another gentleman, his friend, and came disguised like a Dutch shoemaker to the house of Simon Eyre in Tower street, who served the mayor and his household with shoes; the merriment which...
...Delta Upsilon has chosen this year for its annual theatrical performance an Elizabethan comedy, "The Shoemaker's Holiday," by Thomas Dekker. The play was published in 1599, and was first acted before Queen Elizabeth, during the Christmas season of that year, by the Lord High Admiral's servants...
MERMAID CLUB.- The next regular open meeting will be held on Friday, February 7, at 8 o'clock sharp, in 35 Hastings. The reading will be Dekker's "Shoemaker's Holiday," and Chapman's "Bussy D'Ambois...
MERMAID CLUB.- The next open meeting of the club will be held on Friday, January 31, at 8 o'clock, in 35 Hastings. Dekker's "Shoemaker's Holiday" will be read and discussed, after which a definite plan of work for the second half-year will be arranged. All members, both actice and associate, are earnestly requested to attend...