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copied from The Shoemaker's Holiday The first edition prefaces the play with an "Epistle to the Professors of the Gentle Craft," and the Prologue was spoken before Queen Elizabeth. Philip Henslowe's Diary records a payment of £3 to "Thomas Dickers" for the play. This was, at most, half of Henslowe's usual fee for a play, so one or more other payments, not recorded in the Diary, are likely. This play followed in Dekker's own tradition of depicting everyday life in London.[1] Due to this skill, Dekker was later called the "Dickens of English theater."[2] Dekker was influenced by the prose tract titled The Gentle Craft, by Thomas Deloney, printed in 1598.