Great Elizabethan Playwrites

by Don Nardo

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.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Don Nardo (born February 22, 1947) is an American historian, composer, and writer. With close to four hundred and fifty published books, he is one of the most prolific authors in the United States, and one of the country's foremost writers of historical works for children and teens.

Reviews

[Laurel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really clear an concise book about Shakespeare and his contemporaries. I read it as an adult and found it quite useful.