Curated category
17th-century English male writers
- James MabbeJames Mabbe entered the world in 1572. He grew up to become a scholar at Oxford University. His academic journey led him to Magdalen College, where he earned…
- William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, and baptised on the 26th of April 1564. His father John worked as an alderman and a…
- John Davies of HerefordJohn Davies of Hereford was born around 1565 in the city of Hereford. He worked as a writing-master, teaching others how to write and read during the early…
- George Wyatt (writer)George Wyatt entered the world in January 1554 at Allington Castle. His bloodline carried heavy historical weight from his grandfather Sir Thomas Wyatt the…
- Ben JonsonBenjamin Jonson was born in June 1572, possibly on the 11th day of that month. His father died a single month before his birth after losing property and…
- John MiltonJohn Milton was born on the 9th of December 1608 in Bread Street, London. His father, also named John Milton, had moved to London around 1583 after being…
- John LockeOn the 29th of August in the year of our Lord 1632, a boy named John Locke was born in the village of Wrington, Somerset.
- Leonard Digges (writer)Leonard Digges entered University College, Oxford in 1603. This was the same year his mother remarried Thomas Russell of Alderminster.
- Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, the 25th of December 1642 at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire. His father had died three months before the birth.
- Michael DraytonMichael Drayton arrived in the world at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, during early 1563. Very little documentation exists regarding his…
- University WitsChristopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe sat at Cambridge while John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele studied at Oxford.
- Francis BaconFrancis Bacon was born on the 22nd of January 1561 at York House near Strand in London. He entered Trinity College at the University of Cambridge on the 5th…
- John Fletcher (playwright)John Fletcher was born in December 1579 and baptized on the 20th of that month. He entered the world in Rye, Sussex, as the son of Richard Fletcher.
- William CamdenWilliam Camden was born in London on the 2nd of May 1551. His father Sampson Camden belonged to The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers.
- John DrydenJohn Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire. His father Erasmus Dryden belonged to a landowning gentry family…
- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of OxfordOn the 12th of April 1550, Edward de Vere entered the world at Hedingham Castle in Essex. He was the only son of John de Vere, the 16th Earl of Oxford, and…
- Henry WottonHenry Wotton was born on the 30th of March 1568 at Bocton Hall in Kent. His father Thomas Wotton died in 1587 leaving Henry only a hundred marks a year.
- Nicholas Rowe (writer)Nicholas Rowe was born on the 20th of June 1674 in Little Barford, Bedfordshire. His father John worked as a barrister and sergeant-at-law before dying in…
- John HemingesJohn Heminges entered the world on the 25th of November 1566. His name appeared in the register of St Peter de Witton Church in Droitwich, Worcestershire.