GEORGE WHETSTONE BIOGRAPHY
GEORGE WHETSTONE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
WHETSTONE, GEORGE (1544?-1587?). —Dramatist, one of the early, roistering playwrights who frequented the Court of Elizabeth, later served as a soldier in the Low Countries, accompanied Sir Humphrey Gilbert's expedition to Newfoundland in 1578, and was at the Battle of Zutphen in 1586. He was a trenchant critic of the contemporary drama, contending for greater reality and rationality. His play, Promos and Cassandra , translated from Cinthio's Hecatomithi , was used by Shakespeare in Measure for Measure .