Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker (c. 1572-1632) was an English dramatist and pamphleteer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. He was a prolific writer whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists. However, he was forever struggling with debt, and was even imprisoned in 1612 and held for some years. He stopped writing shortly before his death in 1632.