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Elizabethan Playwrights and Authors - Elizabethan Literary Works
The Playwrights and Authors who lived during William Shakespeare's life were truly groundbreaking. This was the Renaissance. The time of new ideas and new learning. The World was opening up and people were travelling and in particular the English. The following Timeline is only approximate as there are insufficient records from the period to be completely accurate. The Timeline is however extremely interesting as it clearly shows the dominance of Shakespeare's works in this period amongst his contempories of the time. The most famous Elizabethan Playwrights and Authors follow

Famous Elizabethan Playwrights and Authors

Christopher Marlow - Playwright and Author   1564 - 1593
Francis Beaumont - Playwright and Author1584 - 1616
John Fletcher - Playwright and Author1579 - 1625
Thomas Middleton  - Playwright and Author  1580 - 1627
Thomas Kyd  - Playwright and Author   1558 - 1594

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Famous Elizabethan Playwrights and Authors and their works
1588
Greene's Pandosto
1588 Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
1590 Spenser's Faerie Queen (1-3)
1590 Marlowe's The Jew of Malta
1591 Sidney'sAstrophil and Stella
1592 Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
1592 Shake-speare's Henry VI Part I
1592 Shake-speare's Henry VI, Part II
1593 Shake-speare's Henry VI, Part III
1594 Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay 
1594 Marlowe's Edward II
1594 Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
1594 Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
1594 Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew
1594 Shakespeare's Shakespeare'sTwo Gentlemen of Verona
1594 Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost
1595 Sidney's An Apologia for Poetrie
1595 Shake-speare's Romeo and Juliet
1595 Shake-speare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
1596 Shake-speare's The Merchant of Venice
1596 Spenser's Faerie Queen (4-6)
1597 Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I
1597 Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II
1598 Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
1598 Shakespeare's Henry V
1598 Jonson Every Man in his Humour
1599 Shake-speare's As You Like It
1599 Jonson Every Man out of his Humour
1600 Shake-speare's Julius Caesar
1600 Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder
1600 Dekker's Shoemaker's Holiday
1600 Jonson Cynthia's Revels
1601 Shakespeare's Richard II
1601 Jonson Poetaster
1600 Shakespeare's Richard III
1600 Shakespeare's Hamlet
1600 Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor
1602 Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
1602 Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well
1603 Jonson Sejanus
1604 Marston's The Malcontent
1604 Shake-speare's Troilus and Cressida
1604 Shake-speare's Measure for Measure
1604 Shake-speare's Othello
1605 Jonson Volpone
1605 Bacon's The Advancement of Learning
1606 Shake-speare's King Lear
1606 Shake-speare's Macbeth
1606 Shake-speare's Antony and Cleopatra
1606 Ben Jonson's Volpone
1607 Shakespeare's Coriolanus
1607 Beaumont and Fletcher Knight of the Burning Pestle
1607 Shake-speare's Timon of Athens
1607 Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy
1608 Shake-speare's Pericles
1609 Ben Jonson's The Silent Woman
1609 Beaumont & Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle
1610 Ben Jonson's The Alchemist
1610 Beaumont and Fletcher Philaster
1611 Shakespeare's Tempest
1611 Beaumont and Fletcher The Maid's Tragedy
1611 Beaumont and Fletcher A King and No King
1611 Shake-speare's Macbeth
1611 Ben Jonson's Catiline
1611 Shake-speare's The Winter's Tale
1612 Webster's The White Devil
1612 Shakespeare's Henry VIII
1612 Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen
1613 Beaumont and Fletcher The Scornful Lady
1614 Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre
1614 Webster's Duchess of Malfi
1614 Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World
1616 Ben Jonson's Workes published in folio
1618 Beaumont and Fletcher The Humorous Lieutenant
1623 Publication of Shakespeare's First Folio
1624 Thomas Middleton A Game at Chess

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