Thomas Drue
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Thomas Drue or Drewe was an English playwright.

He wrote The Life of the Duchess of Suffolk and The Bloody Banquet
The Bloody Banquet
The Bloody Banquet is an early 17th-century play, a revenge tragedy of uncertain date and authorship, attributed on its title page only to "T.D." It has attracted a substantial body of critical and scholarly commentary, chiefly for the challenging authorship problem it presents...

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Drue is the author of a historical play, ‘The Life of the Dvtches of Svffolke,’ 1631, 4to, which has been wrongly attributed by Langbaine and others to Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood was a prominent English playwright, actor, and author whose peak period of activity falls between late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre.-Early years:...

. The play was published anonymously, but it is assigned to Drue in the ‘Stationers Registers’ (under date 13 November 1629) and in Sir Henry Herbert's ‘Office-book.’ Another play, ‘The Bloodie Banquet. By T. D.,’ 1620, 4to, has been attributed without evidence to Drue. An unpublished play, the ‘Woman's Mistake,’ is ascribed in the ‘Stationers' Registers,’ 9 Sept. 1653, to Robert Davenport
Robert Davenport
Robert Davenport was an English dramatist of the early seventeenth century. Nothing is known of his early life or education; the title pages of two of his plays identify him as a "Gentleman," though there is no record of him at either of the two universities or the Inns of Court. Scholars have...

and Drue. Possibly the dramatist may be the Thomas Drewe who in 1621 published ‘Daniel Ben Alexander, the converted Jew, first written in Syriacke and High Dutch by himselfe.'
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