Person

Henry Medwall

English vernacular dramatist

b. 1462 CE – d. 1502 CE World The Atlantic Lands

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.

Moran, J. (2017). Henry Medwall. History Atlas. Retrieved 24 October 2026, from https://www.historyatlas.com/people/henry-medwall/

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