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| 1590 births | |
| 1653 deaths | |
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Originally a servant of Ben Jonson , Brome owed much to his master. The development of his plots, the strongly marked characters and the amount of curious information to be found in his work, all show Jonson's influence. The relationship between master and servant developed into friendship, and our knowledge of Brome's personal character is chiefly drawn from Ben Jonson's lines to him, prefixed to ''The Northern Lasse'' (1632), the play which made Brome's reputation. Brome's genius lay entirely in Comedy . He has left fifteen pieces, some in conjunction with Dekker and others:
He collaborated with Thomas Heywood in ''The late Lancashire Witches'' (pr. 1634). Brome had no original genius, but knew stage-craft well. See AW Ward , ''History of English Dramatic Literature'', vol. iii. pp. 125131 (1899). The ''Dramatic Works of Richard Brome'' were published in 1873. REFERENCES |
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