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  • Elizabethan Drama 101
    • Why Read Elizabethan Drama?
    • Conventions Of the Genre
    • Understanding Iambic Pentameter
    • You vs. Thee
    • Verse vs. Prose
    • Metaphors
    • Vows Oaths and Swears
    • Rhyming
  • The Plays and Playwrights
    • View All the Plays
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
    • George Chapman
    • John Ford
    • John Lyly
    • Christopher Marlowe
    • Philip Massinger
  • Timelines and More
    • Historical Timeline
    • Elizabethan Author Timeline
    • Precursors to Elizabethan Drama
    • A Note For Theater Groups
  • Newly Added Plays
    • The Old Wives’ Tale by George Peele
    • David and Bethsabe by George Peele
  • 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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find and read our plays

Newly Added Plays!

George Peele’s The Old Wives’ Tale (c. 1590-5)
(Added December 2018)

George Peele’s David and Bethsabe (c. 1595-6)
(Added January 2019)

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  • Understanding Iambic Pentameter
  • Vows, Oaths and Swears
  • Verse vs. Prose
  • Why Read Elizabethan Drama?
  • View All the Plays
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