Contemporaries



The playwrights of England in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods (the early seventeenth century) often borrowed ideas from each other. They competed with and (sometimes) grudgingly admired each other.


 * Shakespeare's contemporaries (Palomar) || This offers information on a range of contemporaries in Shakespeares's time. They are from all walks of life and include Richard Burbage, Sir Francis Bacon, William Cecil, Thomas Heywood, Inigo Jones, William Kemp, Christopher Marlow and Robert Green ||
 * Shakespeare's Contemporaries (Internet Shakespeare) || Offers a short commentary and more information under the links The "University Wits", The war of the theatres, Ben Jonson, More contemporaries, Jacobean tragedians, William Davenant (From Internet Shakespeare Editions) ||
 * Shakespeare's early contemporaries || An overview of Shakespeare's early contemporaries from the Theatre Database site ||
 * Shakespeare's contemporaries (Shakespeare online || "Shakespearean England was a treasure-trove of historical giants – Elizabeth I, Ben Jonson, the Earl of Essex, Edward Alleyn, John Lyly, William Kempe – all fascinating to be sure." This site offers a list of those five contemporaries of the Bard whose lives the author finds most intriguing . ||
 * An overview of Shakespeare's contemporaries || An overview (at NoSeatShakespeare) of some of the key figures who were writning at the same time as Shakespeare ||
 * RSC Shakespeare's contemporaries || A good overview of several of the more important dramatists from Shakespeare's times from the Royal Shakespeare Company site. ||