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RICHARD EDWARDS (c. 1523–1566)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD EDWARDS (c. 1523–1566)  ,
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English musician and playwright, was born in
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Somersetshire, became a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1540, and took his M . A. degree in 1547 . He was appointed in 1561 a gentleman of the
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chapel royal and master of the children, and entered Lincoln's
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Inn in 1564, where at Christmas in that
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year he produced a
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play which was acted by his choir boys . On the 3rd of September 1566 his play, Palamon and Arcite, was performed before Queen Elizabeth in the Hall of Christ Church, Oxford .

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