William Shakespeare |
Other Renaissance Playwrights |
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1554 Birth of John Lyly |
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1557 Birth of Thomas Kyd |
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1560 Birth of Robert Greene |
1564 Birth of Shakespeare |
1564 Birth of Christopher Marlowe |
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1570 Birth of Thomas Middleton (?) |
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1572 Birth of Thomas Dekker |
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1573 Birth of Ben Jonson |
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1575 Birth of John Marston |
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1576 Burbage builds The Theater |
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1579 Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd’s Calendar
John Lyly, Euphues
Birth of John Fletcher |
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1580 John Lyly, Euphues His England
Birth of Thomas Middleton (?)
Birth of John Webster |
1582 Shakespeare gets married |
1580-83 Sir Philip Sidney writes Arcadia |
1583 Shakespeare’s daughter born |
1583 Birth of Philip Massinger |
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1584 Birth of Francis Beaumont |
1585 Shakespeare’s twins born |
1585 Birth of William Rowley
Birth of Elizabeth Tanfield (later Cary) |
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1586 Death of Sir Philip Sidney
Birth of John Ford
Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage |
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1587 Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy |
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1587-88 Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine (1 and 2) |
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1588 John Lyly, Endymion |
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1589 Robert Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta |
1590 The Taming of the Shrew |
1590 Publication of Sidney’s The Defense of Poesie |
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1590-96 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1-6) |
1591 3 Henry VI
2 Henry VI
King John |
1591 Anonymous, Arden of Faversham |
1592 Titus Andronicus
Edward III
1 Henry VI
Richard III |
1592 Death of Robert Greene
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Christopher Marlowe, Edward II |
1593 The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
1593 Death of Christopher Marlowe |
1594 The Comedy of Errors |
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1595 Richard II
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Love Labor’s Lost
Romeo and Juliet |
1595 Death of Thomas Kyd |
1596 Merchant of Venice |
1596 Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub |
1596 1 Henry IV |
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1597 2 Henry IV
The Merry Wives of Windsor |
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1598 Much Ado About Nothing
Henry V |
1598 Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humor
George Chapman’s translation of Homer’s Iliad |
1599 As You Like It
Julius Caesar |
1599 Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker’s Holiday
The Globe built in London |
1600 Hamlet |
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1601 Twelfth Night |
1601 Ben Jonson, Poetaster, or The Arraignment |
1602 Troilus and Cressida |
1602-4 John Marston, The Malcontent |
1603 Measure for Measure
Othello |
1603 Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness
John Florio’s translation of Montaigne’s Essays |
1604 All’s Well That Ends Well |
1604 Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam |
1605 King Lear
Timon of Athens |
1605 Ben Jonson, The Mask of Blackness |
1606 Macbeth
Anthony and Cleopatra |
1606 Ben Jonson, Volpone, or The Fox
Death of John Lyly
Thomas Middleton, The Revenger’s Tragedy |
1607 Pericles |
1607 Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle |
1608 Coriolanus |
1608 Ben Jonson, The Mask of Beauty |
1609 The Winter’s Tale |
1609 Ben Jonson, Epicoen or The Silent Woman
Ben Jonson, The Mask of Queens |
1610 Cymbeline |
1610 Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Maid’s Tragedy |
1611 The Tempest |
1611 Middleton and Decker, The Roaring Girl
John Fletcher, The Woman’s Prize |
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1612 John Webster, The White Devil |
1613 Henry VIII
The Two Noble Kinsmen |
1613 Thomas Middleton, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside |
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1614 John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair |
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1615 Thomas Middleton, The Witch |
1616 Death of Shakespeare |
1616 Death of Francis Beaumont
Ben Jonson, Mercury Vindicated |
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1621 Ford/Dekker/Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton
Thomas Middleton, Women Beware Women |
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1622 Middleton and Rowley, The Changeling |
1623 First Folio published |
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1625 Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts
Death of John Fletcher
Death of John Webster |
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1627 Death of Thomas Middleton |
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1629-33 John Ford, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore |
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1632 Death of Thomas Dekker |
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1634 Death of John Marston
Brome and Heywood, The Witches of Lancashire |
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1637 Death of Ben Jonson |
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1638 Death of John Ford |
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1639 Death of Elizabeth Cary |
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1640 Death of Philip Massinger |
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1642 Death of William Rowley |
Last updated November 2007 |
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