See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS See also:

• THOMAS NABBES (b. 16o5)

NABBES (b. 16o5)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English dramatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in humble circumstances in See also:

• WORCESTERSHIRE

Worcestershire . He entered See also:

• EXETER
• EXETER, EARL, MARQUESS AND DUKE OF

Exeter See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, in 1621, but See also:

• LEFT

left the university without taking a degree, and about 163o began a career in See also:

• LONDON

London as a dramatist . His See also:

• WORKS

works include: Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden (acted 1633, printed 1638), a See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• COMEDY

comedy of small merit; See also:

• TOTTENHAM

Tottenham See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court (acted 1634, printed 1638), a comedy the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of which is laid in a See also:

• HOLIDAY

holiday resort of the London tradesmen; See also:

• HANNIBAL
• HANNIBAL (" mercy " or " favour of Baal ")

Hannibal and Scipio (acted 1635, printed 1637), a See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical tragedy; The See also:

• BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

Bride (1638), a comedy; The Unfortunate See also:

• MOTHER

Mother (164o), an unacted tragedy; Microcosmus, a Morall Maske (printed 1637); two other masques, See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Spring's See also:

• GLORY (through the O. Fr. glorie, modern gloire, from Lat. gloria, cognate with Gr. KXebs, abets)

Glory and Presentation intended for the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince his Highnesse on his Birthday (printed together in 1638); and a continuation of See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard See also:

• KNOLLES (or KNOLLES), SIR ROBERT (c. 1325-1407)
• KNOLLES, RICHARD (c. 1545-1610)

Knolles's Generall Historie of the Turkes (1638) . His See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse is smooth and musical, and if his See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language is sometimes coarse, his See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general attitude is moral . The masque of Microcosmus—really a morality See also:

• PLAY

play, in which Physander after much See also:

• ERROR (Lat. error, from errare, to wander, to err)

error is reunited to his wife Bellanima, who personifies the soul—is admirable in its own See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind, and the other two masques, slighter in construction but ingenious, show See also:

• NABBES, THOMAS (b. 16o5)

Nabbes at his best . Nabbes's plays were collected in 1639; and Microcosmus was printed in See also:

• DODSLEY, ROBERT (1703-1764)

Dodsley's Old Plays (1744) . All his works, with the exception of his continuation of Knolles's See also:

• HISTORY

history, were reprinted by A . H . Bullen in his Old English Plays (second See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, 1887) . See also F . G . Fleay, Biog .

Clzron. of the English See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

Drama (1891) .