Gascoigne, George b. 1525 d. October 7, 1577 Author, Soldier, Politician. England's first great literary innovator of the Elizabethan period. His play "Supposes" (1566), translated from Ariosto, was the earliest English prose comedy. Shakespeare used it for the subplot of "The Taming of the Shrew". Gascoigne's adaptation of "Jocasta" (1566), after Euripides, was the first Ancient Greek drama presented in Britain and possibly the first written in blank verse. As a poet he helped introduce the sonnet form to his country. Gascoigne...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards) St John the Baptist Churchyard, Barnack, Huntingdonshire, England Plot: Whetstone Family Vault
b. 1525 d. October 7, 1577