Mayne, Jasper

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

(1604-1672)

Dramatist, was at Oxf., entered the Church, and became Archdeacon of Chichester. He wrote two dramas, The City Match (1639), and The Amorous War (1648), in neither of which did he sustain the clerical character. He had, however, some humour.

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