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Thomas Deloney[dulO´nE] Pronunciation Key, c.1543–c.1600, English ballad writer, fiction writer, and pamphleteer. He was a silk weaver. Deloney's chief works are three prose narratives : Jack of Newbury, Thomas of Reading, and The Gentle Craft (all c.1597) : relating to the clothier's, weaver's, and shoemaker's crafts respectively. Vivid and humorous, they reproduce bourgeois scenes of contemporary London. Their popularity indicates a certain fatigue with the elaborate prose of authors like John Lyly.
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