Surname: Webster Forename(s): John Nationality: English. VIAF.
Jacobean playwright and poet. Dates: c. 1580-c. 1638. Born in London. Married Sara
Peniall on 18 March 1606. Co-author of Westward Ho (1604) and Northward Ho (1605) with Thomas Dekker. Author of The White Devil (c. 1610), and The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1612). Collaborated with William Rowley, John Ford, Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker,
Thomas Heywood, and Philip Massinger. Biographical information: ODNB. (CC)