English Renaissance Dramatists

Playwrights of the English Renaissance theatre of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage of blank verse tragedy and history play. A playwright belongs here when the cited article or its infobox names the English Renaissance or the Elizabethan era. It excludes later Restoration dramatists. Their blank verse plays were staged in London playhouses before mixed audiences, and covered tragedy, comedy and history, and a playwright is placed here by the movement or era the cited article or its infobox names.