Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of John Webster, Vol. 1 of 4
There are scarcely any known materials of which to frame even an outline of the biography of John Webster. We know not where he was born, nor, precisely, when; but there is an entry in the register of the parish church of St. Leonard"s, Shoreditch - "Married: John Webster and Isabell Sutton, 25 July, 1590," - which Mr. Collier, an author by no means used to jump to conclusions, identrifies with our poet, adding: "our principal reason for thinking that it may refer to him is, that elsewhere in the register he is sometimes called merchant-tailor, a description he himself assumed." Alice, the daughter of this pair, was baptized at St. Leonard"s, 9th May, 1606. Gildon, in his Lives of the Poets, tells us that Webster was clerk of the parish of St. Andrew"s, Holborn; and as Gildon"s book was published in 1698 - conjecturally, but half a century after Webster"s death - he may have proceeded upon valid information in his statement.
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