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          John Drinkwater (playwright)

          British writer

          John Drinkwater (1 June 1882 – 25 March 1937) was an Englishpoet and dramatist.

          He was known before World War I as one of the Dymock poets, and his poetry was included in all five volumes of Georgian Poetry (edited by Edward Marsh, 1912–1922). After World War I, he achieved fame as a playwright and became closely associated with Birmingham Repertory Theatre.[1]

          Life and career

          John Drinkwater was born in Leytonstone, Essex (now Greater London), to actor/author Albert Edwin Drinkwater (1851–1923) and Annie Beck (née Brown), and worked as an insurance clerk.

          In the period immediately before the First World War, he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke, Lascelles Abercrombie, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and others.[1]

          In 1918, he had his first major success with his play Abraham Lincoln.

          He followed it with others in a similar vein, includin