Henry Medwall

English vernacular dramatist

1462 CE to 1502 CE

Henry Medwall (September 8, 1462 – c.1501/2?)

is the first known English vernacular dramatist.

Fulgens and Lucrece (c.1497), whose heroine must choose between two suitors, is the earliest known secular English play.

The other play of Medwall is titled Nature.

He stays at the court of Cardinal Morton, Chancellor in the time of Henry VII.

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