English Renaissance dramatists

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.

English dramatist, poet and translator (1564–1593)

English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637)

English Jacobean playwright (1579–1625)

English dramatist (1578-1634)

16th/17th-century English dramatist, poet, and translator

English playwright (1584–1616)

English dramatist

English playwright and poet

English playwright, poet and dramatist (c.1553/4-1606)

English Elizabethan pamphleteer and poet

English dramatist and pamphleteer

English playwright (1583–1640)

English author (1558-1592)

English Caroline dramatist and poet

16th/17th-century English playwright, actor, and author (1574–1641)

English writer 1575?-1634

English writer and dramatist (1557–1625)

English politician and poet (1536-1608)

English poet and dramatist (1556-1596)

English writer (1596–1666)

English playwright and miscellaneous writer

English Jacobean dramatist (1585-1626)

English dramatist

British actor (1587-1620)

English poet, dramatist and composer

English playwright

English writer (1569–1609)

English writer

group of late 16th century English playwrights

English dramatist and clergyman

British writer

English dramatist

16th-century English playwright and writer

17th-century English dramatist and actor

English writer

Elizabethan dramatist

English dramatist

English dramatist (died 1599)

English dramatist

Poet and playwright, d. 1648

English writer