Meres, Francis

Meres, Francis

▪ English author
born 1565, Kirton, Holland, Lincolnshire, Eng.
died Jan. 29, 1647, Wing, Rutland

      English author of Palladis Tamia; Wits Treasury, a commonplace book valuable for information on Elizabethan poets.

      Meres was educated at the University of Cambridge and became rector of Wing, Rutland, in 1602. His Palladis Tamia (1598) is most important for its list of Shakespeare's dramatic output to 1598, but it also includes mention of the deaths of Christopher Marlowe, George Peele, and Robert Greene and briefly records the critical estimation of the poets of the day. Shakespeare is called “the most excellent in both kinds [comedy and tragedy] for the stage,” and Chaucer, “the God of English poets.”

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