Who are the different writers of the Elizabethan Era?
The key literary figures in the English Renaissance are now generally considered to be the poet Edmund Spenser; the philosopher Francis Bacon; the poets and playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson; and the poet John Milton. Sir Thomas More is often considered one of the earliest writers of the English Renaissance. Examples of Elizabethan comedies include John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moone, Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl, or, Moll Cut Purse, and William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Examples of Elizabethan tragedies include William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, and John Webster’s The Tragedy of the Duchess of Malfi. Edmund Spenser: Faerie Queene (1590, 1596, 1609), The Shepheardes Calender (1579) Francis Bacon: The Advancement of Learning (1605), History of Henry VII (1622), and several important legal and constitutional works Christopher Marlowe: Edward II (1592), Tamburlaine (c.
