Thomas Harriot
Charles Bradlaugh
deism
William Paley
humanism
Friedrich Engels
Kyd, Thomas Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
...Thomas ( 1558–94 ), Elizabethan dramatist, intimate friend of Marlowe , with whom he was implicated in accusations of atheism and subsequently imprisoned. His reputation as a playwright rests almost entirely upon hearsay, as all the plays attributed to him, with the exception of a translation of Robert Garnier 's Cornelia ( 1594 ), were published anonymously; but he is definitely known to be the author of The Spanish Tragedy ; or , Hieronimo is Mad Again ( c. 1589 ), one of the most popular productions of its day and the forerunner of many similar ...
Chapman, George (1559–1634) Reference library
Robert Maslen
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...For some scholars, this book identifies him as a member of an exclusive group of intellectuals who surrounded Sir Walter Ralegh . In 1592 the group was dubbed the ‘school of atheism’ by a querulous pamphleteer. One theory, now discredited, holds that Love’s Labour’s Lost ( c. 1594 ) is an attack on the Ralegh circle, and that Shakespeare alludes to this ‘school of atheism’ as the ‘school of night’ (4.3.251), with The Shadow of Night as its poetic manifesto. This theory also proposes that Chapman was the rival poet referred to in Shakespeare’s...
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Synge, [Edmund] J[ohn] M[illington] (16 April 1871) Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
...of ideas and the heroic romanticism of the Celtic Twilight. The son of a wealthy barrister, who died when he was just a year old, and a stern and religiously obsessive mother, Synge reacted against the conservative and socially privileged Protestantism of his background with atheism, socialism, a dedicated interest in native Gaelic language and culture, and an element of anarchic exuberance which was to manifest itself in his plays. At the age of 26 he was diagnosed as suffering from the Hodgkin's Disease which was to kill him 12 years later, and to this...
