Who else was famous for writing plays in Elizabethan times?

Answer 1

After Shakespeare, the playwrights of the Elizabethan theatre who are best known now are Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. Thomas Kyd was a famous playwright then and is well-known now. Others include Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, George Peele, Thomas Dekker, Cyril Tourneur, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, John Webster, John Fletcher, and Francis Beaumont. Wikipedia lists 88 known Elizabethan dramatists all told, but many of these wrote plays which are now lost, or plays which were never performed and in some cases were never intended to be performed.