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from A History of English Literature
1918
by Robert Huntington Fletcher
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from Chapter VI. The Drama From About 1550 To 1642
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The chief dramatists of the whole sixty years of the great period may be conveniently grouped as follows: I. Shakespeare's early contemporaries, about 1580 to about 1593: Lyly, Peele, Greene, Kyd, Marlowe. II. Shakespeare. III. Shakespeare's later contemporaries, under Elizabeth and James I: Jonson, Chapman, Dekker, Heywood, Middleton, Marston, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster. IV. The last group, under James I and Charles I, to 1642: Ford, Massinger, and Shirley.
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