Lucent Library of Historical Eras - Great Elizabethan Playwrights

Inventiveness and boldness were the chief hallmarks of the greatest and most influential of the Elizabethan playwrights. John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, George Peele, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson, whose lives and works are explored in volume, used their extraordinary talents to give everyday people of all classes entertainment of a scale and quality they had never known before. And in so doing, they created the English-speaking theater practically overnight.