English Renaissance plays

tragedy by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.

upright=1.2|thumb|A poster for a American production of Macbeth, starring Thomas W. Keene. Depicted, counter-clockwise from top-left, are: Macbeth and Banquo meeting the witches, the aftermath of the murder of Duncan, Banquo's ghost, Macbeth dueling Macduff, and Macbeth.

thumb|Othello and Desdemona in Venice by [[Théodore Chassériau, 1850]]

tragedy by William Shakespeare

play by William Shakespeare

play by William Shakespeare

play by William Shakespeare

comedy by William Shakespeare

pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare

tragedy by William Shakespeare

play by William Shakespeare

play by Shakespeare

early play by William Shakespeare

comedy play by William Shakespeare

Shakespearean history play

thumb|John Philip Kemble as Coriolanus by [[Thomas Lawrence, 1798]]

play by Shakespeare

play by Shakespeare

play by Shakespeare

play by William Shakespeare

play by Shakespeare

play by Shakespeare

play written by Shakespeare

play by Shakespeare

comedy play by William Shakespeare

history play by William Shakespeare

play by Shakespeare

thumb|right|302x302px|Imogen (Cymbeline)|Imogen in her bedchamber in Act II, scene ii, when Iachimo witnesses the mole under her breast. Painting by [[Wilhelm Ferdinand Souchon, 1872]] Cymbeline (), also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain () and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early historical Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although it is listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance or even a comedy. Like Othello and '

play by Shakespeare

play written in part by William Shakespeare

history play by Shakespeare

play by Shakespeare

play by Christopher Marlowe

play by Shakespeare

play partly written by William Shakespeare

play by Shakespeare

play by Shakespeare

play by Christopher Marlowe

play often attributed to Shakespeare

thumb|An illustration for an 1898 edition of Volpone by Aubrey Beardsley. Volpone (, Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies.

Play by Thomas Kyd

tragedy written by John Ford

play by Christopher Marlowe

thumb|right|An Marlowe portrait|anonymous portrait, often believed to show Christopher Marlowe. [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.]] Tamburlaine the Great is a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor Timur (Tamerlane/Timur the Lame, d. 1405). Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in Elizabethan public drama; it marks a turning away from the clumsy language and loose plotting of the earlier Tudor dramatists, and a new interest in fresh and vivid language, memorable action, and intellectual complexity. Along with Thomas

1623 tragedy by John Webster

The Ur-Hamlet (the German prefix Ur- means "original") is a play by an unknown author, thought to be either Thomas Kyd or William Shakespeare, dated by scholars to the second half of 1587. No copy of the play survives today. The play was staged in London, more specifically at The Theatre in Shoreditch as recalled by Elizabethan author Thomas Lodge. It includes a character named Hamlet; the only other known character from the play is a ghost who, according to Thomas Lodge in his 1596 publication Wits Misery and the Worlds Madnesse, cries "Hamlet, revenge!"

lost Shakespearean play, mostly rewritten as "Double Falsehood" by another playwright

Eponymous Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday

play by Marlowe

English play from 1561

play by Christopher Marlowe

record book of the Stationers' Company of London

play probably mistakenly attributed to Shakespeare

play written by Ben Jonson

1607 play written by Thomas Middleton

play

play (probably mistakenly) attributed to Shakespeare

dramatic genre in which the protagonist seeks revenge

masque by Milton