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 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 Famous Elizabethan Playwrights and Authors and their works Globe Theatre Pictures of the old Globe Theater Structure and Layout of the old Globe Theatre Old Globe Theatre Timeline New Globe Theatre Timeline Visiting the New Globe Theater - a London vacation Elizabethan Inn-Yards, Theaters and Playhouses Location Map & Descriptions of Elizabethan Theatres Elizabethan Acting Troupes William ShakespeareTimeline Published Editions of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare Biography Famous Elizabethan Playwrights and Authors and their works |