Whetstone, George
Related Category: English Literature, 1500 to 1799: Biographies
1551?–1587, English dramatist and poet. His chief work, the play
Promos and Cassandra (1578), is important in the development of English domestic drama and was a source for Shakespeare's
Measure for Measure. Whetstone, whose works are full of grave moral utterances, was also the author of
Rock of Regard (1576), a miscellany of verse and prose;
A Remembrance (1577), a poem in honor of his friend George Gascoigne;
An Heptameron of Civil Discourses (1582); and
A Mirror for Magistrates of Cities (1584).
