1554 Birth of John Lyly

1557 Birth of Thomas Kyd

1560 Birth of Robert Greene

1564 Birth of Shakespeare

1564 Birth of Christopher Marlowe

1570 Birth of Thomas Middleton (?)

1572 Birth of Thomas Dekker

1573 Birth of Ben Jonson

1575 Birth of John Marston

1576 Burbage builds The Theater

1579 Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd’s Calendar
         John Lyly, Euphues
         Birth of  John Fletcher

1580 John Lyly, Euphues His England
         Birth of Thomas Middleton (?)
         Birth of John Webster

1582 Shakespeare gets married

1580-83 Sir Philip Sidney writes Arcadia

1583 Shakespeare’s daughter born

1583 Birth of Philip Massinger

1584 Birth of Francis Beaumont

1585 Shakespeare’s twins born

1585 Birth of William Rowley
         Birth of Elizabeth Tanfield (later Cary)

1586 Death of Sir Philip Sidney
         Birth of John Ford
         Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage

1587 Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy

1587-88 Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine (1 and 2)

1588 John Lyly, Endymion

1589 Robert Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
         Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta

1590 The Taming of the Shrew

1590 Publication of Sidney’s The Defense of Poesie

1590-96 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1-6)

1591 3 Henry VI
         2 Henry VI
         King John

1591 Anonymous, Arden of Faversham

1592 Titus Andronicus
         Edward III
         1 Henry VI
         Richard III

1592 Death of Robert Greene
        Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
        Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

1593 The Two Gentlemen of Verona

1593 Death of Christopher Marlowe

1594 The Comedy of Errors

1595 Richard II
        A Midsummer Night’s Dream
        Love Labor’s Lost
       Romeo and Juliet

1595 Death of Thomas Kyd

1596 Merchant of Venice

1596 Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub

1596 1 Henry IV

1597 2  Henry IV
        The Merry Wives of Windsor

1598 Much Ado About Nothing
         Henry V

1598 Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humor
         George Chapman’s translation of Homer’s Iliad

1599 As You Like It
        Julius Caesar

1599 Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker’s Holiday
         The Globe built in London

1600 Hamlet

1601 Twelfth Night

1601 Ben Jonson, Poetaster, or The Arraignment

1602 Troilus and Cressida

1602-4 John Marston, The Malcontent

1603 Measure for Measure
        Othello

1603 Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness
         John Florio’s translation of Montaigne’s Essays

1604 All’s Well That Ends Well

1604 Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam

1605 King Lear
         Timon of Athens

1605 Ben Jonson, The Mask of Blackness

1606 Macbeth
         Anthony and Cleopatra

1606 Ben Jonson, Volpone, or The Fox
 Death of John Lyly
         Thomas Middleton, The Revenger’s Tragedy

1607 Pericles

1607 Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle

1608 Coriolanus

1608 Ben Jonson, The Mask of Beauty

1609 The Winter’s Tale

1609 Ben Jonson, Epicoen or The Silent Woman
Ben Jonson, The Mask of Queens

1610 Cymbeline

1610 Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Maid’s Tragedy

1611 The Tempest

1611 Middleton and Decker, The Roaring Girl
         John Fletcher, The Woman’s Prize

1612 John Webster, The White Devil

1613 Henry VIII
         The Two Noble Kinsmen

1613 Thomas Middleton, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

1614 John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
        Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair

1615 Thomas Middleton, The Witch

1616 Death of Shakespeare

1616 Death of Francis Beaumont
         Ben Jonson, Mercury Vindicated

1621 Ford/Dekker/Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton
         Thomas Middleton, Women Beware Women

1622 Middleton and Rowley, The Changeling

1623 First Folio published

1625 Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts
         Death of John Fletcher
         Death of John Webster

1627 Death of Thomas Middleton

1629-33 John Ford, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

1632 Death of Thomas Dekker

1634 Death of John Marston
         Brome and Heywood, The Witches of Lancashire

1637 Death of Ben Jonson

1638 Death of John Ford

1639 Death of Elizabeth Cary

1640 Death of Philip Massinger

1642 Death of William Rowley