16th-century theatre

theatre of England between 1562 and 1642

thumb|Setting designed by Bernardo Buontalenti for the third intermedio from the 1589 Medici wedding: Apollo defeats the monster terrorizing [[Delos.]] thumb|Another of the 1589 intermedi: number 4: the demons lament that with the coming of the Golden Age there will be no more souls to torment.

genre in which the theme is revenge and its consequences

rivalry between playwrights Ben Johnson, John Marston, and Thomas Dekker from 1599 to 1602