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Born c.1580 • England
Died c.1632 • London • England
Notable Works “The Duchess of Malfi” • “The White Devil”
Movement / Style Jacobean age
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
John Fletcher, engraving
John Fletcher
English dramatist
Francis Beaumont, engraving.
Francis Beaumont
English dramatist
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John Marston
British dramatist
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
Marlowe or not Marlowe?
Christopher Marlowe
English writer
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John Ford
British dramatist
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Robert Greene
English writer
Title page of a 1615 edition of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.
Thomas Kyd
English dramatist
title page of George Peele's The Old Wives' Tale
George Peele
English dramatist
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Henry Chettle
English dramatist
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Cyril Tourneur
English dramatist
Jonson, Ben
Ben Jonson
English writer
Frontispiece of an early edition of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Robert Burton
English author, scholar, and clergyman
Thomas Middleton, engraving
Thomas Middleton
English dramatist
Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic