Other Authors of Elizabethan Period

 Authors

 Works and Important notes

1. Norton (1532 – 84 ) and Sackville ( 1536 – 1604 )

# Gorboduc ( 1562 )

• This is the first English Tragedy

 2. Nicholas Udall

 # Ralph ro’ster Doister (1533 )

• This is the first English Comedy

3. Sir Philip Sidney ( 1554 – 86 )

• An Apology for Poetry

• A critical treatise

• Arcadia – this book bears the embryo of English novel

4. John Lily ( 1554 – 1606 )

• Campaspe . Midas

• Sapho and Phao

• Euphues (1579 ), a book that bears the embryo of English novel

5. Thomas Kyd

- The Spanish Tragedy

6. George Peele

- David and Bethsabe

- Arriagnment of Paris

7. Christopher Marlowe

- The Jew of Malta

- Edward

- Doctor Faustus

8. Thomas Nashe

- The unfortunate traveler ( 1594 )

9. Ben Johnson

- Every man out of His Humour

- Volpone

- The sprit women

- Every man in his Humour

- The Alchemist

10. Beaumont ( 1584 – 1616 ) and Fletcher ( 1579 – 1625 )

- The King and No king

- The Maids Tragedy