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English playwright and poet who was Shakespeare's greatest contemporary — his comedies (Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair) satirize human greed and folly with unsentimental ferocity — and whose literary criticism and relationship with Shakespeare (admired him as a friend, criticized his carelessness) defines the Elizabethan-Jacobean literary world.