Thomas Dekker
English Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatist and pamphleteer, author of city comedies and numerous plays and prose pamphlets (e.g., The Shoemaker's Holiday), active around the turn of the 17th century.
Books
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1. The Shoemaker's Holiday
A lively city comedy that follows a charismatic shoemaker whose wit, generosity, and good fortune carry him from the workshop to civic prominence; amid bustling London streets, taverns, and apprentices’ banter, comic disguises, romantic entanglements, and social reversals bring lovers together, expose pretensions, and celebrate artisan life, community bonds, and the possibility of upward mobility with warmth, music, and festive satire.
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