"Shakespeare’s Contemporaries Quiz – Test Your Elizabethan Literature Knowledge"

📚 Shakespeare's Contemporaries Quiz

Explore the lives and works of playwrights from Shakespeare's time!

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📖 Shakespeare's contemporaries quiz

Test your knowledge of Elizabethan playwrights!

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George Chapman

Known for his translations of Homer and plays like Bussy D'Ambois.

Tragedies & translations

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Ben Jonson

Famous for comedies like The Alchemist and Volpone.

Comedies & masques

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Thomas Heywood

Wrote domestic dramas like A Woman Killed with Kindness.

Domestic tragedies

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Thomas Dekker

Known for The Shoemaker's Holiday and The Honest Whore.

City comedies

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John Marston

Authored satirical plays like The Malcontent.

Satirical dramas

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Thomas Middleton

Wrote The Changeling and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.

Tragedies & comedies

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John Webster

Famous for dark tragedies like The Duchess of Malfi.

Dark tragedies

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Philip Massinger

Known for A New Way to Pay Old Debts and The Roman Actor.

Social comedies

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John Ford

Authored 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Perkin Warbeck.

Tragic dramas

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Beaumont & Fletcher

Collaborated on The Maid's Tragedy and Philaster.

Tragicomedies

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