Rennaissance English Writers in Chronological Order

Rennaissance English Writers in Chronological Order 

1. Sir Thomas Malory (1405-1471) - "Le Morte d'Arthur"

2. John Bourchier (1410-1474) - "The Chronicles of England"

3. Henry Medwall (1462-1501)

4. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) - "Utopia"

5. William Tyndale (1494-1536) - "The Obedience of a Christian Man"

6. John Heywood (1497-1580)

7. Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) - "The Book of Common Prayer"

8. Roger Ascham (1515-1568) - "The Schoolmaster"

9. Nicholas Udall (1504-1556)

10. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

11. Thomas Wilson (1524-1581) - "The Arte of Rhetorique"

12. Richard Mulcaster (1530-1611) - "The First Part of the Elementarie"

13. William Wager (1530-1569)

14. George Puttenham (1529-1590) - "The Arte of English Poesie"

15. Thomas Norton (1532-1584)

16. George Gascoigne (1534-1577) - "The Adventures of Master F.J."

17. Thomas Sackville (1536-1608)

18. William Camden (1551-1623) - "Britannia"

19. John Lyly (1554-1606) - "Euphues", "Euphues and His England"

20. Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

21. Fulke Greville (1554-1628)

22. Thomas Lodge (1558-1625) - "The Tales of the Gods"

23. Abraham Fraunce (1559-1593)

24. Robert Greene (1558-1592) - "Pandosto", "Menaphon"

25. John Florio (1553-1625) - "A Worlde of Wordes"

26. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

27. Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)

28. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

29. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) - "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

30. Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

31. Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) - "The Unfortunate Traveller"

32. Thomas Campion (1567-1620)

33. Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

34. Henry Constable (1562-1613)

35. John Donne (1572-1631)

36. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

37. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) - "The Shoemaker's Holiday", "The Honest Whore"

38. John Fletcher (1579-1625) - "The Faithful Shepherdess", "The Island Princess"

39. John Marston (1576-1634) - "The Malcontent", "The Dutch Courtesan"

40. George Wilkins (1576-1618) - "The Miseries of Enforced Marriage"

41. Robert Burton (1577-1640) - "The Anatomy of Melancholy"

42. Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) - "Philaster", "A King and No King"

43. John Webster (1580-1625) - "The White Devil", "The Duchess of Malfi"

44. Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - "The Revenger's Tragedy", "A Game at Chess"

45. John Day (1574-1640) - "The Tragedy of the Turks", "The Parliament of Bees"

46. Thomas Heywood (1574-1641) - "The Four Prentices of London", "The Royal King and the Loyal Subject"

47. Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)

48. Giles Fletcher (1586-1623)

49. Philip Massinger (1583-1640)

50. George Wither (1588-1667)

51. Barnaby Rich (1540-1617) - "The Adventures of Don Simonides"

52. William Browne (1591-1643)

53. Richard Barnfield (1574-1627)

54. George Herbert (1593-1633)

55. James Shirley (1596-1666) - "The Traitor", "The Lady of Pleasure"

56. Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)

57. Thomas Carew (1595-1640)

58. William Rowley (1585-1642) - "The Birth of Merlin", "The Changeling"

59. Jasper Mayne (1604-1672)

60. John Ford (1586-1639) - "The Lover's Melancholy", "The Broken Heart"

61. William Davenant (1606-1668) - "The Wits", "The Man's the Master"

62. John Milton (1608-1674)

63. John Bulwer (1606-1656) - "Chirologia"

64. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) - "Leviathan"

65. Henry Glapthorne (1610-1643) - "The Hollander", "The Ladies' Privilege"

66. James Cummings (1550-1614)

67. Thomas Jordan (1612-1685)

68. Thomas Urquhart (1611-1660) - "The Jewel"

69. Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) - "The Prisoners", "The Parson's Wedding"

70. John Evelyn (1620-1706) - "Diary", "Sylva"

71. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) - "The Mistress", "Pindarique Odes"

72. John Locke (1632-1704) - "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"

73. Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680) - "The Vanity of Dogmatizing"

74. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) - "Diary"

75. George Savile (1633-1695) - "The Character of a Trimmer"

76. Aphra Behn (1640-1689) - "Oroonoko", "The Rover"

77. John Dryden (1631-1700) - "Essays", "The Conquest of Granada"

78. Thomas Sprat (1635-1713) - "The History of the Royal Society"