Thomas Dekker in his pamplet 'A Knight's Conjuring' places the player John Bentley amongst a company of deceased playwrights, 'tho (hee had bene a Player, molded out of their pennes) yet because he had bene their Louer, and a Register to the Muses[.]' The dead playwrights named in this passage (by last name only) are Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Atchelow, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, George Peele, and Thomas Nashe 'that was but newly come to their Colledge.'
| Name | Event Role(s) | Document Role(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Dekker, Thomas | author | |
| Kyd, Thomas | plaintiff | |
| Bentley, John | player | |
| Atchelow, Thomas | playwright | |
| Marlowe, Christopher | playwright | |
| Watson, Thomas | playwright | |
| Greene, Robert | playwright | |
| Nashe, Thomas | playwright | |
| Peele, George | playwright |