![]() Over the next few years Webster collaborated with several other playwrights such as Rowley, Middleton, Fletcher, Ford, and Massinger on at least eight plays and some non-dramatic verse. Whether Jonson contemplated writing Southward Ho to complete the main points of the compass is not known. This type of literary sparring was quite commonplace in this period. ![]() Ben Jonson, for whatever reason, retaliated with his own play, Eastward Ho, to which Webster and Dekker responded with Northward Ho in 1605. Webster had already established himself as a playwright, having collaborated with Thomas Dekker on a comedy, Westward Ho. ![]() Sara was seven months pregnant, so haste was essential to avoid the stigma of illegitimacy. ![]() In 1605 he married Sara Peniall by special licence, which was necessary as it was during Lent when marriages were not normally permitted. For this reason John may have attended Merchant Taylors’ School but what is certain is that he was admitted to the Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court, in 1598. ![]() His father was a carriage maker and a freeman of the Merchant Taylors’ Company, one of the twelve great livery companies. John Webster was born in or near London probably around 1580. ![]()
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