Nabbes, Thomas

Nabbes, Thomas

▪ English writer
born 1605, Worcestershire, Eng.
 
buried April 6, 1641, London

      English dramatist and writer of verse, one of a number of lesser playwrights of the period. He is perhaps best known for his masques.

      Nabbes attended Exeter College, Oxford, in 1621, but he left the university without taking a degree. He began his writing career in London in about 1630. His first comedy, Covent Garden, was dedicated to Sir John Suckling and was performed in 1632 or 1633. The comedies Totenham Court (perf. 1633) and The Bride (perf. 1638) met with some success, but his tragedy The Unfortunate Mother (1640) did not find a company to act it. He wrote a number of masques and occasional verses, most of which demonstrate some skill. All of Nabbes's works, with the exception of his continuation of Richard Knolles's Generall Historie of the Turkes (1638), were reprinted in A.H. Bullen's Old English Plays (1887).

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