- This article is about the English playwright. For the character from the ballad, also known as True Thomas, see Thomas the Rhymer.
Thomas Rhymer (1641–1713) was an English playwright and critic who introduced the English to the principles of French Neoclassical Drama. Rhymer is best known for his essay A Short View of Tragedy (1692) which John Dennis famously responded to in The Impartial Critick.
References
- The Critical Works of Thomas Rymer, ed. Curt Zimansky (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956).
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