JOHN TATHAM BIOGRAPHY

JOHN TATHAM BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.

TATHAM, JOHN ( fl. 1632-1664). —Dramatist. Little is known of him. He produced pageants for the Lord Mayor's show and some dramas, Love Crowns the End , The Distracted State , The Scots Figgaries, or a Knot of Knaves , The Rump , etc. He was a Cavalier, who hated the Puritans and the Scotch, and invented a dialect which he believed to be their vernacular tongue.