Thomas Bradshaw

Thomas Bradshaw (born 1562) was an English poet, the author of The Shepherd's Starre, published in 1591.

Bradshaw was baptised on 25 September 1562. His father, also Thomas Bradshaw, was Headmaster of the King's School, Worcester; his mother was a daughter of Guthlac Edwards . He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 18 July 1580, aged 17. efn-la|Craze

The bulk of the volume consists of A Paraphrase upon the Third of the Canticles of Theocritus, in both verse and prose. The author's style in the preface is highly affected and euphuistic, but the Theocritean paraphrase reads pleasantly. The book is of great rarity; but there is a copy in the British Museum.

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