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John Webster

1578 - 1634

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John Webster (c. 1578 – c. 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. His life and career overlapped with Shakespeare's. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Webster is the 2,798th most popular writer (up from 2,815th in 2019), the 2,327th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,090th in 2019) and the 260th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, John Webster ranks 2,798 out of 7,302. Before him are Ibn Manzur, Robert Kerr, Nicholas Rémy, Branko Radičević, Yury Yakovlev, and Isaac Deutscher. After him are Edward Bellamy, Oscar Cullmann, Vladimir Sorokin, José Donoso, Tony Robbins, and Bekir Çoban-zade.

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Among people born in 1578, John Webster ranks 13. Before him are Adam Elsheimer, Fede Galizia, Agostino Tassi, Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, and Benedetto Castelli. After him is Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari. Among people deceased in 1634, John Webster ranks 12. Before him are Maria Celeste, Urbain Grandier, John Marston, António de Andrade, John Albert Vasa, and Sophia of Holstein-Gottorp. After him are Johann von Aldringen, Magdalene of Nagasaki, Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst, Edward Coke, Johann Carolus, and Taranatha.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Webster ranks 2,327 out of 8,785. Before him are Taliesin (518), Geoffrey Hughes (1944), George Frederic Watts (1817), Sarah Miles (1941), William Kent (1685), and Robert Kerr (1755). After him are F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), Charles Kay Ogden (1889), Murray Head (1946), David Blunkett (1947), Joan Hickson (1906), and Francis Darwin (1848).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Webster ranks 260. Before him are J. B. Priestley (1894), Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), Leonard Woolf (1880), Thomas Otway (1652), Taliesin (518), and Robert Kerr (1755). After him are Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), John Evelyn (1620), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Angela Carter (1940), and Michael Bond (1926).

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