Shakespeare's Contemporaries

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Dr. Faustus
Dr. Faustus 3.80 avg rating — 71,008 ratings
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Edward II
Edward II 3.66 avg rating — 7,236 ratings
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The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 3.84 avg rating — 511 ratings
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The Complete Plays
The Complete Plays 4.07 avg rating — 2,783 ratings
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The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy 3.56 avg rating — 8,299 ratings
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The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera
by: John Gay
3.40 avg rating — 3,989 ratings
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Volpone and Other Plays
Volpone and Other Plays 3.53 avg rating — 319 ratings
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The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays
The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays 3.89 avg rating — 2,095 ratings
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Volpone
Volpone 3.49 avg rating — 10,221 ratings
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The Complete English Poems
The Complete English Poems 4.15 avg rating — 9,888 ratings
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays
'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays
by: John Ford
3.85 avg rating — 627 ratings
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Tamburlaine
Tamburlaine 3.61 avg rating — 2,840 ratings
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Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies
Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays
A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays 3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe
The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The World of Christopher Marlowe
The World of Christopher Marlowe 3.83 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Women Beware Women: And Other Plays
Women Beware Women: And Other Plays 3.76 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Alchemist and Other Plays
The Alchemist and Other Plays 3.58 avg rating — 334 ratings
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The Devil is an Ass: And Other Plays
The Devil is an Ass: And Other Plays 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets (Norton Critical Editions)
Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets (Norton Critical Editions) 3.73 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Three Plays: The White Devil / The Duchess of Malfi / The Devil's Law-Case
Three Plays: The White Devil / The Duchess of Malfi / The Devil's Law-Case 3.78 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Duchess of Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi 3.63 avg rating — 18,351 ratings
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Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story 3.98 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London 3.97 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama 3.56 avg rating — 36 ratings
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A Dead Man in Deptford
A Dead Man in Deptford 3.81 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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Elizabethan Jacobean Drama: The Theatre in Its Time
Elizabethan Jacobean Drama: The Theatre in Its Time 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology
English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology 4.21 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments
Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments 3.80 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Medieval and Tudor Drama: Twenty-Four Plays (Applause Books)
Medieval and Tudor Drama: Twenty-Four Plays (Applause Books) 3.43 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works 3.45 avg rating — 754 ratings
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The Duchess of Malfi: Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama
The Duchess of Malfi: Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women: The Tragedie of Iphigeneia/the Tragedie Oa Antonie/the Tragedie of Mariam
Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women: The Tragedie of Iphigeneia/the Tragedie Oa Antonie/the Tragedie of Mariam 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose 4.25 avg rating — 3,811 ratings
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Ben Jonson of Westminster
Ben Jonson of Westminster really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays 3.95 avg rating — 2,745 ratings
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Five Plays
Five Plays 3.89 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Ben Jonson: A Life
Ben Jonson: A Life 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England 4.09 avg rating — 5,668 ratings
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Roaring Boys: Shakespeare's Rat Pack
Roaring Boys: Shakespeare's Rat Pack 3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama
The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama 3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Drama of the English Renaissance: Volume 1, The Tudor Period
Drama of the English Renaissance: Volume 1, The Tudor Period really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Drama of the English Renaissance: Volume 2, The Stuart Period
Drama of the English Renaissance: Volume 2, The Stuart Period 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Shakespeare of London
Shakespeare of London 4.02 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies [The Shoemaker's Holiday, Every Man In His Humour, Eastward Ho!]
The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies [The Shoemaker's Holiday, Every Man In His Humour, Eastward Ho!] 3.60 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Three Jacobean Tragedies: The White Devil / The Revenger's Tragedy / The Changeling
Three Jacobean Tragedies: The White Devil / The Revenger's Tragedy / The Changeling 3.87 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois; and The Atheist's Tragedy
Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois; and The Atheist's Tragedy 3.76 avg rating — 186 ratings
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English Renaissance Drama
English Renaissance Drama 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects
Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects 4.21 avg rating — 1,231 ratings
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Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments, 1605-1640
Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments, 1605-1640 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe 4.04 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years
Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade
The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade
by: John Guy
3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre
The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Five Plays
Five Plays 3.80 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters 3.16 avg rating — 1,298 ratings
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Webster: The Tragedies
Webster: The Tragedies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Selected Prose and Dramatic Work: John Lyly
Selected Prose and Dramatic Work: John Lyly
by: John Lyly
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Malcontent and Other Plays
The Malcontent and Other Plays 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Witch of Edmonton
The Witch of Edmonton 3.38 avg rating — 911 ratings
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A Companion to Renaissance Drama
A Companion to Renaissance Drama 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Volume 5: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism, and Reviews
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Volume 5: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism, and Reviews really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama
The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Staging the Renaissance
Staging the Renaissance 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Center Or Margin: Revisions of the English Renaissance in Honor of Leeds Barroll
Center Or Margin: Revisions of the English Renaissance in Honor of Leeds Barroll 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Ben Jonson: A Life
Ben Jonson: A Life 4.08 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Sejanus
Sejanus 3.25 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Complete Works of John Webster
Complete Works of John Webster 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Seven Stages
Seven Stages really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist 3.55 avg rating — 3,835 ratings
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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson 7 Volume Set
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson 7 Volume Set it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Plays and Masques
Plays and Masques 3.50 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Plays of Cyril Tourneur: The Revenger's Tragedy, The Atheist's Tragedy
The Plays of Cyril Tourneur: The Revenger's Tragedy, The Atheist's Tragedy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama
A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Ben Jonson's Parodic Strategy: Literary Imperialism in the Comedies
Ben Jonson's Parodic Strategy: Literary Imperialism in the Comedies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Dido, Queen of Carthage
Dido, Queen of Carthage 3.45 avg rating — 795 ratings
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Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books)
Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy
Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Masques of Difference: Four court masques by Ben Jonson
Masques of Difference: Four court masques by Ben Jonson 3.38 avg rating — 29 ratings
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William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (The RSC Shakespeare, 45)
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (The RSC Shakespeare, 45) 4.32 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Ben Jonson: Dramatist
Ben Jonson: Dramatist 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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La vida es sueño
La vida es sueño 3.93 avg rating — 26,846 ratings
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Six Renaissance Tragedies
Six Renaissance Tragedies 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson
The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Elizabethan Tragedies: A Basic Anthology
Elizabethan Tragedies: A Basic Anthology it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Three Renaissance Usury Plays: The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl
Three Renaissance Usury Plays: The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Three Renaissance Travel Plays
Three Renaissance Travel Plays
by: Tony Parr
3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Epicoene or The Silent Woman
Epicoene or The Silent Woman 3.19 avg rating — 676 ratings
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Bartholomew Fair
Bartholomew Fair 3.27 avg rating — 828 ratings
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Eros and Power in English Renaissance Drama: Five Plays by Marlowe, Davenant, Massinger, Ford and Shakespeare
Eros and Power in English Renaissance Drama: Five Plays by Marlowe, Davenant, Massinger, Ford and Shakespeare 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy
Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Five Jacobean Tragedies
Five Jacobean Tragedies 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory
Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Revels History of Drama in English: 1576-1613 v. 3
Revels History of Drama in English: 1576-1613 v. 3 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Shakespearean Tragedy: Genre Tradition and Change in Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespearean Tragedy: Genre Tradition and Change in Antony and Cleopatra 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Renaissance Women: The Plays of Elizabeth Cary and the Poems of Aemilia Lanyer
Renaissance Women: The Plays of Elizabeth Cary and the Poems of Aemilia Lanyer 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents
Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Complete Poems and Translations
The Complete Poems and Translations 4.03 avg rating — 368 ratings
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History Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe
History Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe 3.29 avg rating — 84 ratings
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