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Excerpt from Specimens of the British Poets, Vol. 4 of 7: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and an Essay on English Poetry; Shirley, 1666, to Prior, 1721
James Shirley was born in London. He was educated at Cambridge, where he took the degree of A. M. and had a curacy for some time at or near St. Alban's, but embracing popery, became a schoolmaster in that town. Leaving this employment, he settled in London as a dramatic writer, and between the years 1629 and 1666, published thirty-nine plays. In the civil wars he followed his patron, the Earl of Newcastle, to the field, but on the decline of the royal cause returned to London, and, as the theatres were now shut, kept a school in White Friars, where he educated many eminent characters. At the re-opening of the theatres he must have been too old to have renewed his dramatic labours; and what benefit the Restoration brought him as a royalist, we are not informed.
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