This man is satirized in a play as Demetrius Fannius and is described as "a simple fellow and a dresser of plays.
This man is satirized in a play as Demetrius Fannius and is described as "a simple fellow and a dresser of plays." Peeved, this author offered a rejoinder to that play The Poetasters  by writing Satiromastix  in collaboration with John Marston. Eventually he and Ben Jonson resolved their differences and ended the "War of the Threatres"  when they collaborated on the play The King's Entertainment. Later in his career, he wrote a number of prose pamphlets including The Wonderful Year about the effects of the plague. Though primarily a writer of comedies and tragicomedies, he assisted in the tragedies Lust's Dominion  and The Virgin Marytr  with Philip Massinger .  A frequent collaborator with Middleton on such works as The Honest Whore  and The Roaring Girl,  for 10 points, name this Elizabethan playwright of The Shoemaker's Holiday or The Gentle Craft.
This man is satirized in a play as Demetrius Fannius and is described as "a simple fellow and a dresser of plays.
Thomas Dekker