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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
John Marston
British dramatist
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
Detail of a portrait thought to be of Christopher Marlowe, dated 1585, artist unknown; in the collection of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Christopher Marlowe
English writer
John Ford
British dramatist
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
Henry Chettle
English dramatist
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
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer