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You mean apart from Shakespeare's own plays, I suppose, since his best plays were the best there were. Here is a selection of plays which were popular at the time and are pretty good:

Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine parts one and two

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy

Robert Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday

Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy

Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour

Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

Ben Jonson, Volpone

Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Beaumont and Fletcher, Philaster

John Webster, The White Devil

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness

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