The Tudor Society
  • March 29 – Clergyman and playwright William Wager

    Title page of "The Longer thou Livest the more Fool thou art" by William Wager

    On this day in Tudor history, 29th March 1591, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I,  playwright and Church of England clergyman William Wager was buried at the church where he was rector, St Benet Gracechurch.

    I was drawn to him simply because of the titles of two of his plays, “Enough is as Good as a Feast” and “The Longer thou Livest the More Fool thou art”, which have been described as polemical Protestant interludes. I love those titles!

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