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Rowley, William c.1585-c.1626
English actor and playwright

Little is known about him, except that he collaborated with Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, John Heywood, John Webster, Philip Massinger and John Ford. Four plays published under his name are extant: A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vext (1632), All's Lost by Lust (c.1620, a tragedy), A Match at Midnight (1633), and A Shoemaker, a Gentleman (1638).

Bibliography: C W Stock, William Rowley (1910)