Marlowe and Shakespeare were both playwrights (Marlowe finally credited among cast of Bard's co-writers, 24 October). When first coined by Ben Jonson in his Epigrams, the word had a distinct whiff of derision, but it was nevertheless rooted in the working life of the period. Wrights, from the Old English "wryhta", roughly equivalent to "worker", were craftsmen, builders or repairers.In the same way as shipw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PM on October 24, 2016