Shackerley Marmion

Shackerley Marmion (1603 - 1639), dramatist, son of a country gentleman of Northamptonshire, was educated at Oxford. After a youth of extravagance, he fought in the Low Countries. His writings consist of an epic, Cupid and Psyche, and three comedies, Holland's Leaguer , A Fair Companion , and The Antiquary . His plays show some power of satire, and were popular, but he had little of the dramatist.