A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Nabbes, Thomas

by John William Cousin

Nabbes, Thomas (fl. 1638). -- Dramatist, was at Oxf. in 1621. He lived in London, and wrote comedies, satirising bourgeois society. He was most successful in writing masques, among which are Spring's Glory and Microcosmus. He also wrote a continuation of Richard Knolles' History of the Turks.