Rich, Barnabe

Rich, Barnabe

▪ English author and soldier
born 1542
died Nov. 10, 1617

      English author and soldier whose Farewell to Militarie Profession (1581) was the source for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

      He entered military service in 1562 and fought in the Low Countries and in Ireland; he eventually became a captain. Later he was an informer for the crown in Ireland under Elizabeth I and James I.

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