16th Century

John Skelton (1460?-1529)

Thomas More (1478-1535)

Magellan's Travel (1519 -1522)

Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

Thomas Elyot (1490-1546)

William Tyndale (1494?-1536)

Thomas Wyatt (1503?-42)

Nicholas Udall (1505-56)

John Cheke (1514-57)

Roger Ascham (1515?-68)

John Foxe (1516-1587)

Henry Howard (1517?-47)

Thomas Wilson (1525?-81)

Statute of Apprentices and Labourers (1563)

George Puttenham (1529?-90)

Thomas Norton (1532-84)

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

Thomas Sackville (1536-1608)

Edmund Spenser (1552?-99)

Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618)

Philip Sidney (1554-86)

John Lyly (1554?-1606)

George Peele (1556-96)

Thomas Kyd (1558-94)

Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)

Robert Greene (1558-92)

Robert Southwell (1561?-95)

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

Christopher Marlowe (1564-93)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)

Thomas Campion (1568-1639)