John Mason was a British playwright, author of the Jacobean

revenge tragedy Revenge tragedy (sometimes referred to as revenge drama, revenge play, or tragedy of blood) is a theoretical genre in which the principal theme is revenge and revenge's fatal consequences. Formally established by American educator Ashley H. Thor ...

''An Excellent Tragedy of Mulleasses the Turke, and Borgias Governour of Florence,'' commonly referred to as ''

The Turk (play) ''An Excellent Tragedy of Mulleasses the Turke, and Borgias Governour of Florence'', commonly referred to as ''The Turk'' is Jacobean revenge tragedy by John Mason first published in 1610.Robert Henke, Eric Nicholson ''Transnational Exchange in E ...

'', 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 in 1606. He owned a half-share of the

Whitefriars Theatre The Whitefriars Theatre was a theatre in Jacobean London, in existence from 1608 to the 1620s — about which only limited and sometimes contradictory information survives. Location The Whitefriars district was outside the medieval city walls o ...

, which performed ''The Turk''.

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