The Shoemaker's Holiday is a good example of Dekker's work in the drama.The play is full of an atmosphere of pleasant mirth,varied with characteristic touches of pathos; and it contains in the figure of Simon Eyre a creation of marked individuality and hilarous humor.The Alchemist contains so much universal human nature.and is so excellent in art.that is holds a place among the first of those Elizabethan works that have the interest of polterity.Beaurmont and Fletcher are the first recruits to t