William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

male, deceased (1616)
poet, macbeth, hamlet, English poet, Authors whose works are in the public domain, Lord Chamberlain's Men…English-speaking world, EnglishRenaissancedramatist, English, English Renaissance dramatists
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's...
Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

male, deceased (1637)
buried at Westminster Abbey, satirical, jacobean, Renaissance, English Poets Laureate, EnglishRenaissancedramatist…dramatist, English, Literature in English, English Renaissance
Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 - 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he...
Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

male, deceased (1593)
Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, Kingdom of England, elizabethan, English Renaissance theatre, tragedy, tragedian…Pederasty in the Renaissance, English dramatists and playwright, EnglishRenaissancedramatist, dramatist, English
Christopher "Kit" Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William...
George Chapman

George Chapman

male, deceased (1634)
Rival Poet, Batrachomyomachia, iliad, odyssey, homer, shakespeare…EnglishRenaissancedramatist, English
George Chapman (ca. 1559 - May 12 1634) was an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar, and his work shows the...
Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton

male, deceased (1627)
from the City of London, Christ's Hospital Old Blue, masque, EnglishRenaissancedramatist, pageant, tragedy…English, English Renaissance theatre
Thomas Middleton (1580 - 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most...
Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker

male, deceased (1632)
Playwright, EnglishRenaissancedramatist, dramatist, elizabethan, English, Elizabethan era
Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 - August 25 1632) was an Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer whose career spanned several...

John Fletcher

male, deceased (1625)
poet, from Rye, East Sussex, Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, King's Men, English, tudor…EnglishRenaissancedramatist
John Fletcher (1579 - 1625) was a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most...
Henry Porter

Henry Porter

male, deceased (1599)
EnglishRenaissancedramatist, murder victim, Dr. Faustus, tudor, English, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Henry Porter was an English dramatist. There is a lot known about the lie of Henry Porter other then the diary entries of Philip Henslowe the...

Henry Chettle

male, deceased (1607)
Kind Heart's Dream, Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit, Marshalsea, Elizabethan era, quarto, tudor…English, dramatist, EnglishRenaissancedramatist
Henry Chettle (1564? - 1607?) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer of the Elizabethan era. The son of Robert Chettle, a London dyer,...
Thomas Kyd

Thomas Kyd

male, deceased (1594)
Thomas Hawkins, The Spanish Tragedie, tudor, Old Merchant Taylor, Scholar, hamlet…English, dramatist, EnglishRenaissancedramatist
Thomas Kyd was an English dramatist, the author of "The Spanish Tragedy", and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan...