November 25th Cupid as a Shoemaker Thomas Dekker (1570–1632). The Shoemaker’s Holiday. Vol. 47, pp. 469-483 of The Harvard Classics We are indebted to Thomas Dekker for one of the most humorous characters in all Elizabethan literature; namely, Simon Eyre, an old shoemaker whose affairs became hilariously involved with those of the gentry.
