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Richard Barnfield was born in Shropshire, and was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he took his BA in 1592. He lived as a gentleman in London, where his friends were poets and playwrights, until about 1600, and then retired for the rest of his life to his manor in Staffordshire.
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Campbell, G. (1989). Richard Barnfield. In: Campbell, G. (eds) The Renaissance (1550–1660). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20157-0_30
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