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English Renaissance dramatists (3 C, 61 P) Pages in category "17th-century English dramatists and playwrights" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total.
17th-century British playwrights. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2024) 18th-century British playwrights ... 20th-century ...
British Women Playwrights around 1800; The Brown University Women Writers Project; A Celebration of Women Writers; Emory Women Writers Resource Project; Images of Early Modern, 20th and 21st Century British Female Playwrights; List of biographical dictionaries, with a focus on 17thc women writers; London Theater People - 1660–1800; Luminarium
John Ford (1586 – c. 1639) was an English playwright and poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras born in Ilsington in Devon, England. [2] His plays deal mainly with the conflict between passion and conscience. Although remembered primarily as a playwright, he also wrote a number of poems on themes of love and morality.
John Fletcher (December 1579 – August 1625) was an English playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; during his lifetime and in the Stuart Restoration, his fame rivalled Shakespeare's.
Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson , was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among the few to gain equal success in comedy and tragedy .
Dramatists and playwrights from the Spanish Netherlands (1 P) Pages in category "17th-century dramatists and playwrights" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was rated as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets, but since the late 17th century has been considered the supreme playwright and poet of the English language.