V. The Drama

N.B.—Some cross-classification is unavoidable in this table.

Date Tragedy Comedy Historical and Pastoral

1500

Ralph Roister Doister

Gorboduc

Kyd The Famous Victories of
Henry the Fifth

Marlowe J. Heywood

Greene Lyly

1600 Nash Shakespeare Shakespeare

Shakespeare Jonson Jonson

Jonson Massinger Fletcher

Webster

Ford

Milton Dryden

Dryden

1700 Lee Congreve

Addison Steele

Johnson

Goldsmith Home

Sheridan

1800 Baillie

Byron Byron

Shelley

Browning

Swinburne

Tennyson Wilde Tennyson

1900 G. B. Shaw Swinburne