John Mason was a British playwright, author of the
Jacobean revenge tragedy ''An Excellent Tragedy of Mulleasses the Turke, and Borgias Governour of Florence,'' commonly referred to as ''
The Turk (play)'', first published in 1610.
Little of Mason's life is known. An 18th-century writer reported that Mason may have graduated from
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Camb ...
in 1606.
He owned a half-share of the
Whitefriars Theatre, which performed ''The Turk''.
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English Renaissance dramatists
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