![]() Bequests in the will of a neighbour who died in 1617, indicate that other children were born to him. Their first child, John Webster III, was baptised at the parish of St Dunstan-in-the-West on 8 March 1606. ![]() A special licence was needed to permit a wedding in Lent, as Sara was seven months pregnant. Webster married 17-year-old Sara Peniall on 18 March 1605 at St Mary's Church, Islington. On 1 August 1598, "John Webster, lately of the New Inn" was admitted to the Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court in view of the legal interests evident in his dramatic work, this may be the playwright. His father John and uncle Edward were Freemen of the Merchant Taylors' Company and Webster attended Merchant Taylors' School in Suffolk Lane, London. ![]() The family lived in St Sepulchre's parish. His father, a carriage maker also named John Webster, married a blacksmith's daughter named Elizabeth Coates on 4 November 1577 and it is likely that Webster was born not long after, in or near London. Webster's life is obscure and the dates of his birth and death are not known. His life and career overlapped with Shakespeare's. ![]() 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. ![]()
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