PLAYWRIGHTS AND PLAYS (PART I) – ELIZABETHAN TO JACOBEAN
The Elizabethan Playwrights and their Important Plays
Playwright: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Plays: Dido, the Queen of Carthage/Tamburlaine the Great Parts I and II/ The
Jew of Malta/
Doctor Faustus/Edward
II/The Massacre at Paris.
Playwright: John Lyly (1553/54-1606)
Plays: Campaspe /Sapho and Phao /Endymion /Gallathea /Midas /Mother Bombie/
Love’s Metamorphosis.
Playwright: George Peele (1556-1596)
Plays: The Arraignment of Paris/Edward I/The Battle of Alcazar/The Old
Wives’ Tale/
David
and Bathsheba.
Playwright: Robert Greene (1558-1592)
Plays: Alphonsus - King of Aragon/ Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay/ Orlando
Furioso
Playwright:
Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)
Plays: The Spanish Tragedy/ Solyman and Perseda /Cornelia/ The Ur-Hamlet
Playwright: Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)
Plays: The Wounds of Civil War/ A Looking Glass for London and England.
Playwright: Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
Plays: Summer’s Last Will and Testament
Playwright: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Plays: Comedy of Errors /The Two Gentleman of Verona /The Taming of the
Shrew /
A Midsummer Night’s Dream /The Merchant of Venice /As You Like It /
Much Ado about Nothing/ Twelfth Night /All’s Well that Ends Well /Measure for Measure/
Troilus and Cressida/ Titus Andronicus /Romeo and Juliet /Hamlet /Othello /King Lear/
Macbeth/Julius Caesar/ Antony and Cleopatra /Coriolanus /The Timon of Athens /Richard II/
Richard III /King John /Henry V/ Henry VI (Parts I, II III) /Henry IV (Parts I, II) / Pericles /
Love’s Labour’s Lost /Cymbeline/ The Winter’s Tale /The Tempest.
Playwright: Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Plays: Sejanus /Catiline his Conspiracy/Every Man in his Humour /Every Man
out of his Humour/
Cynthia’s Revels/ The Poetaster/ Volpone/
Epicoene (or) The Silent Woman/The Alchemist/
Bartholomew Fair/The Staple of News/The New Inn.
The Jacobean/Caroline Playwrights and
their Important Plays
Playwright: Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Plays: The Scornful Ladie /The Coxcomb /Philaster /The Maides Tragedy /A
king and No King/
Cupid’s Revenge.
Playwright: Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)
Plays: The Mayor of Queenborough /A Faire Quarrel /A Mad World, My Masters/
The Roaring Girl (with Dekker) /The Old Law
(with Massinger and Rowley) /The Changeling/
Anything for a Quiet Life /A Trick to Catch the Old One /The Family of Love /
Women beware Women/ A Game at Chess.
Playwright: John Webster (1580-1632)
Plays: The White Devil /The Duchess of Malfi /The Devil’s Law Case /Appius
and Virginia.
Playwright: John Ford (1586-1639)
Plays: The Lover’s Melancholy /‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore /The Broken Heart.
Playwright: Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
Plays: The Shoemaker’s Holiday/ The Honest Whore (with Middleton) /
The Witch of Edmonton (with Ford and Rowley) / The Virgin Martyr (with Massinger).
Playwright: John Marston (1576-1634)
Plays: Antonio and Mellida/ Revenge of Antonio/ The Malcontent (with
Webster).
Playwright: Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
Plays: The Virgin Martyr (with Dekker) /The City Madam /A New Way to Pay Old Debts/
The Unnatural Combat /The Maid of Honour /Empire of the East/The Fatal Dowry (with Field)/
The Duke of Milan /The Roman Actor.
Playwright: Thomas Heywood (1570-1641)
Plays: The Woman Killed with Kindness/ The Fair Maid of the West/ The
English Traveler.
Playwright: James Shirley (1596-1666)
Plays: The Gamester/ The Lady of Pleasure/ The Maid’s Revenge/ The
Wedding/ The Grateful Servant/
The Witty Fair One/ The Traitor/ A Contention of Honour and Riches/ The
Triumph of Beauty/
Cupid and Death.
Playwright: George Chapman (1559-1634)
Plays: The Blind Beggar of Alexandria /All Fools’/ The Gentleman Usher/ Bussy
D’ Ambois/
The Admiral of France.
Playwright: Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
Plays: Aristippus /The Conceited Peddler /The Jealous Lovers /The Muses’
Looking Glass /Amyntas.
Playwright: William Rowley (1585-1626)
Plays: A New Wonder/ All’s Lost by Lust /A
Match at Midnight /A Shoemaker is a Gentleman.
Playwright: Cyril Tourneur (?-1626)
Plays: The Atheist’s Tragedy/ The Revenger’s Tragedy
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