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Thomas Dekker was most probably born in London although his name implies Dutch ancestry. We first hear of him in when between then and he was involved in the writing of some 40 plays for Philip Henslowe, a theatrical impresario, many in collaboration with other playwrights such as Ben Jonson and John Marston.

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He later fell out with Jonson but they later collaborated on a pageant for the Royal Entry for James I, a ceremony prior to his accession.

He also later collaborated variously with John Ford, John Webster, William Rowley, and Thomas Middleton over the next few decades in an age when collaboration was commonplace.

Although a lot of his plays have been lost, his first known individual play was The Pleasant Comedie of Old Fortunatus, a comedy based on a German legend about a man with a magic purse. The play for which he is best remembered for though is his masterpiece The Shoemaker’s Holiday, written in , a rowdy comedy in which a humble shoemaker rises to b