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GEORGE (1544?-1587?).-Dramatist, one of the early, roistering playwrights who frequented the Court of Elizabeth, later served as a soldier in the Low Countries, accompanied Sir Humphrey Gilbert's expedition to Newfoundland in 1578, and was at the Battle of Zutphen in 1586. He was a trenchant critic of the contemporary drama, contending for greater reality and rationality. His play, _Promos and Cassandra_, translated from Cinthio's _Hecatomithi_, was used by Shakespeare in _Measure for Measure_.