Thomas Dekker Edited, with an introd and notes . although Wilson mayhave provided some of the situations and dialogue, thecredit of the play as a whole is undoubtedly Dekkers. TJieShoemakers Holiday is the first of Dekkers pla)s, in orderof publication, which has survived, although according toHenslowe he began to write for the stage in 1596. The conception of Simon Eyre, the Shoemaker, is takenfrom a real person of that name, who, according to Stow,was an upholsterer, and afterwards a draper. He builtLeadenhall in 1419, as referred to by Dekker in Act V., THE SHOEMAKERS HOLIDAY. 3 Sc. 5, beca
Thomas Dekker Edited, with an introd and notes . although Wilson mayhave provided some of the situations and dialogue, thecredit of the play as a whole is undoubtedly Dekkers. TJieShoemakers Holiday is the first of Dekkers pla)s, in orderof publication, which has survived, although according toHenslowe he began to write for the stage in 1596. The conception of Simon Eyre, the Shoemaker, is takenfrom a real person of that name, who, according to Stow,was an upholsterer, and afterwards a draper. He builtLeadenhall in 1419, as referred to by Dekker in Act V., THE SHOEMAKERS HOLIDAY. 3 Sc. 5, became Sheriff of London in 1434, was elected LordMayor in 1445, and died in 1459. About his characternothing certain is known. It may well be, say the editorsof the Halle edition, that long after Eyres death the builderof Leadenhall was supposed to have been a shoemaker him-self, merely because Leadenhall was used as a leather-market. This tradition was probably taken up by the poet,who formed out of it one of the most popular comedies ofthe
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