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Major writers of the Elizabethan Period

May 24, 2014 Written by Shinoj

Major writers of the Elizabethan Period

This table lists important writers and their works of the Elizabethan period of English literature. Relevant information is

added where ever possible. There are dedicated posts for some of the listed authors/works. Click on the hyperlink to get

more information about the author/work. If you feel anything more needed to be added here or something is amiss, do

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Name of the WriterYears RolesMajor Works

1536-
Thomas Sackville Poet The Myrroure for MagistratesGorboduc (Collaborated with with Thomas Norton)
1608
 1532-
Thomas Norton Poet Gorboduc (Collaborated with Thomas Sackville)
1584

1525-
George Gascoigne Poet Steel GlassSupposesJocasta
1577

The Faerie QueeneThe Shepheardes CalendarAmorettiEpithalamionProthalamion

Mother Hubberds Tale

1552- The Ruins of the Rime

Edmund Spenser Poet
1599
The Tears of hte Muses

Astrophel

1503-
Thomas Wyatt Poet
1542
}Introduced Sonnet into English Literature
Henry Howard, 1516-
Poet
Earl of Surrey 1547

1554-
Sir Philip Sydney Poet ArcadiaAstrophel and StellaAn Apoogie for Poetrie
1586

1562-
Samuel Daniel Poet The Battle of AgincourtEnglands Heroic EpistlesThe Barons WarsPolyolbion
1619

The Harmonie of the Church (1591)Idea, The Shepherds Garland (1593)Ideas Mirror
(1594)Peirs Gaveston (1593 or 1594)Matilda (1594)
Endimion and Phoebe: Ideas Latmus (1595)

The Tragical Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy (1596)

Mortimeriados (1596)

Englands Heroicall Epistles (1597)

 The Barons Wars in the Reign of Edward II (1603)

The Owl (1604)

The Man in the Moon (1606)

The Legend of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (1607)

1563-
Micheal Drayton Poet Poly-Olbion (1612 & 1622)
1631
Idea (1619)

Pastorals: Containing Eclogues (1619)

Odes (1619)

The Battle of Agicourt (Published 1627)

The Quest of Cynthia (Published 1627)

Elegies Upon Sundry Occasions (1627)

Nymphidia, the Court of Fairy (1627)

The Shepherds Sirena (1627)

Muses Elysium (1630)

Moses Birth and Miracles (1630)

William 1564-
DramatistPoet
Shakespeare 1616

Every Man in His HumourEvery Man Out of His HumourVolpone or the

FoxCynthias RevelsThe Alchemist
Bartholomew Fayre

Epicaene or the Silent Women

1573- Sajanus His Fall

Ben Jonson Dramatist
 1637 Catline His Conspiracy

The Poetaster

Teh Devil as an Ass

The Masque of Beauty

Thomas 1570-
Dramatist
Middleton 1627

1580-
John Webster Dramatist The White DevilThe Duchess of MalThe Devils Law Case
1625

1586-
John Ford Dramatist The Broken HeartTis Pity She is a WhoreThe Lovers MelancholyLoves Sacrice
1639

Francis 1584-
Dramatist A King and No KingThe Night of the Burning Pestle
Beaumont 1616

1579-
John Fletcher Dramatist PhilasterThe Maids Tragedy
1625

1583-
Philip Massinger Dramatist A New Way to Pay Old DebtsThe City MadamThe Duke Milaine
1640

1572-
Thomas Dekker Dramatist
1632

1596-
James Shirley Dramatist
1666

1572-
John Marston Dramatist
1634

Thomas 1575-
Dramatist A Woman Killed with KindnessThe English TravellerThe Captives
Heywood 1650

1554-
Sir Philip Sydney Prose
1608

1561-
Francis Bacon Prose
1626

1552-
Raleigh Prose History of the World
1618

Raphael
?-1580 Prose Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland
Holinshed
 1552-
Richard Hakluyt Prose Discovery of English Nation
1616

1554-
Richard Hooker Prose Ecclesiastical Polity
1600

William Webbe Prose Discourse of English Poetrie

George
Prose Arte of English Poesie
Puttenham

University Wits

1554-
John Lyly DramatistProseEuphues: The Anatomy of WitEphues and His EnglandEndymion
1606

1557-
Thomas Kyd Dramatist The Spanish Tragedy
1586

1558-
George Peele Dramatist The Araygnement of ParisThe Famous Chronicle of King Edward I
1597

1558-
Thomas Lodge DramatistProseThe Wounds of Civil WarRosalynde
1625

1560-
Robert Greene DramatistProseFrier Bacon and Frier BungeyOrlando FuriosoPandosto
1592

Christopher 1564- Tamburlaine the GreatEdward IIDoctor FaustusThe jew of MaltaThe Tragedy of
Dramatist
Marlow 1593 Dido, Queene of Carthage

1567-
Thomas Nash Dramatist The Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jack Wilton
1601

George Chapman (1559-1634)

Drama
Poetry
Comedy Tragedy

The Blind Beggar of Alexandria

The Shadow of Night (1594) Bussy DAmbois (1607)
(1596)

Ovids Banquet of Sense The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron
An Humorous Days Mirth (1597)
(1595) (1608)
 All Fools (Printed 1605) The Revenge of Bussy DAmbois (1613)

The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France (Published

Monsieur DOlive (1605)
1639)

The Gentleman Usher (Printed

Caesar and Pompey (1613?)
1606)

May Day (Printed 1611)

The Widows Tears (Printed 1612)

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