Typical Elizabethan plays

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Endymion, the man in the moon / by John Lyly (court drama)

The lamentable and true tragedy of Master Arden of Feversham in Kent / probably by Thomas Kyd (a murder play)

A pleasant conceited comedy of George A Greene, the pinner of Wakefield / probably by Robert Greene (folk drama)

The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / by Christopher Marlowe (tragedy of the supernatural)

The troublesome reign and lamentable death of Edward II / by Christopher Marlowe (a chronicle play)

The pleasant comedy of old Fortunatus / by Thomas Dekker (romantic comedy)

A woman killed with kindness / by Thomas Heywood (domestic drama)

Eastward ho / by George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston (comedy of London life)

Volpone, or The fox: a comedy / by Ben Jonson (satirical comedy of humors)

The hue and cry after cupid: a masque at the Lord Viscount Haddington's marriage / by Ben Jonson (court masque)

The sad shepherd: a fragment / by Ben Jonson (pastoral)

The maid's tragedy / by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (romantic tragedy)

Philaster, or Love lies a-bleeding / by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (tragicomedy)

Rule a wife and have a wife: a comedy / by John Fletcher (comedy of manners)

The tragedy of the Duchess of Malfi / by John Webster (tragedy of revenge)

The changeling / by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley (romantic tragedy)

A new way to pay old debts / by Philip Massinger (comedy of manners)

The chronicle history of Perkin Warbeck, a strange truth / by John Ford (historical problem play)

The lady of pleasure / by James Shirley (later comedy of manners)

Appendix of additional selections, scenes from

Sir Thomas More (An ill May-day) / by Anthony Munday and others, Shakespeare perhaps among them (biographical chronicle play)

The return from Parnassus, or The scourge of Simony, Part II / Anonymous (college drama)