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Webster (JOHN an English dramatist)

JOHN, an English dramatist of the first part of the 17th century. He was clerk of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, and a member of the Company of Merchant Tailors. His works are: "The White Devil" (1612); "The Devil's Law-Case" (1623); "The Duchess of Malfy" (1623); "Appius and Virginia" (1654); "The Thracian Wender" (1661); and "A Cure for a Cuckold," a comedy (1661). He also assisted Dekker in writing the "History of Sir Thomas Wyatt," and the comedies "Westward Hoe!" and "Northward Hoe!"

By some critics he is accounted second only to Shakespeare.