English dramatist and poet. His surviving plays are a pastoral, The Arraignment of Paris (1584), Edward I (1593), The Battle of Alcazar (1594), a fantastic comedy, The Old Wives' Tale ...
Peele, George, 1558?–1597?, English playwright, educated at Oxford. He experimented in a variety of forms, including the pageant, history, pastoral, comedy, and melodrama, but ...
Peele, George (1556–96), Elizabethan dramatist, who worked mainly for Henslowe, often in collaboration with other playwrights of the time. It has even been suggested, without ...
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Peele, George (b. 1552; d. 1598?). “The Arraignment of Paris” (1584); “The Device of the Pageant” (1585); “An Eclogue Gratulatorie” (1589); “A Farewell” (1589 ...
Britannica online encyclopedia article on George Peele (English dramatist), c. July 25, 1556, London, Eng.c. Nov. 9, 1596Elizabethan dramatist who experimented in many forms of ...
