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  • Elizabethan Drama 101
    • Why Read Elizabethan Drama?
    • Conventions Of the Genre
    • Understanding Iambic Pentameter
    • You vs. Thee
    • Elements Humours and Spheres
    • Verse vs. Prose
    • Metaphors
    • Vows Oaths and Swears
    • Rhyming
  • The Plays and Playwrights
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    • Beaumont and Fletcher
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    • Precursors to Elizabethan Drama
  • Newly Added Plays
    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
    • Love’s Sacrifice by John Ford
    • The Summoning of Everyman by Anonymous
  • Shakespeare Invented Words Project
    • Master List of Invented Words
    • Why and How Did Shakespeare Invent Words?
An annotated collection of Elizabethan plays

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Newly Added Plays!

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (written c. 1594-6) (Added February 2026).

John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy (written c. 1628) (Added October 2025).

The Anonymous morality play The Summoning of Everyman (written c. 1500) (Added January 2023).

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