John Mason was an English playwright, author of the Jacobean revenge tragedy ''An Excellent Tragedy of Mulleasses the Turke, and Borgias Governour of Florence,'' commonly referred to as ''

The Turk (play) ''An Excellent Tragedy of Mulleasses the Turke, and Borgias Governour of Florence'', commonly referred to as ''The Turk'' is Jacobean revenge tragedy by John Mason first published in 1610.Robert Henke, Eric Nicholson ''Transnational Exchange in E ...

'', first published in 1610. Little of Mason's life is known. An 18th-century writer reported that Mason may have graduated from St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1606. He owned a half-share of the Whitefriars Theatre, which performed ''The Turk''.

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