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HAUGHTON, WILLIAM (fl. 1598)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 66 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAUGHTON, See also:WILLIAM (fl. 1598) , See also:English playwright. He collaborated in many plays with See also:Henry See also:Chettle, See also:Thomas See also:Dekker, See also:John See also:Day and See also:Richard Hathway. The only certain See also:biographical See also:information about him is derived from See also:Philip See also:Henslowe, who on the loth of See also:March 1600 See also:lent him ten shillings " to See also:release him out of the Clink." Mr Fleay credits him with a considerable See also:share in The Patient Grissill (1599), and a merry See also:comedy entitled English-Men for my See also:Money, or A Woman will have her Will (1508) is ascribed to his See also:sole authorship. The See also:Devil and his See also:Dame, mentioned as a forthcoming See also:play by Henslowe in March 1600, is identified by Mr Fleay as Grim, the See also:Collier of See also:Croydon, which was printed in 1662. In this play an emissary is sent from the infernal regions to See also:report on the conditions of married See also:life on See also:earth. Grim is reprinted in vol. viii., and English-Men for my Money in vol. x., of W. C. See also:Hazlitt's edition of See also:Dodsley's Old Plays.

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