1580
Thomas Middleton, English Jacobean playwright and poet (died 1627)
Thomas Middleton, English Jacobean playwright and poet (died 1627)
Thomas Middleton
English playwright and poet (1580–1627)
- Born
- 1580
Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among the few to gain equal success in comedy and tragedy. He was also a prolific writer of masques and pageants.