All plays are annotated, and available in both pdf and epub files;
and the annotations are next to the lines for easy reading.

Select a play to find downloads of that play.
Select an Introduction to a Playwright to find out more about that playwright.

Click here to find brief notes which provide general information on the annotations and downloading the plays and may increase your enjoyment of the plays.

If you have enjoyed reading any of the plays on this site, please drop me a line at Peter@ElizabethanDrama.org.

Early Historically Important Plays

Gorboduc (aka Ferrex and Porrex) (1561)
Ralph Roister Doister (1552-3)
Gammer Gurton’s Needle (1562-4?)
Damon and Pithias (1571)

Beaumont and Fletcher

Introduction to Beaumont and Fletcher
The Scornful Lady (1609-10)
A King and No King (1611)
Cupid’s Revenge (1611-2)

George Chapman

Introduction to George Chapman
The Gentleman Usher (1606)
The Widow’s Tears (1612)

 John Ford

Introduction to John Ford
Love’s Sacrifice (1633)
Perkin Warbeck (1634)

Robert Greene

Introduction to Robert Greene
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (c.1590)

   John Lyly

Introduction to John Lyly
Campaspe (1580-1)
Midas (1590)

Christopher Marlowe

Introduction to Christopher Marlowe
Dido, Queen of Carthage  (1585-6)
Tamburlaine the Great, Part One  (1586-7)
Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two (1587)
Doctor Faustus (the ‘A’ text) (1589-1592)
Edward II (1592)

 Philip Massinger

Introduction to Philip Massinger
The Virgin Martyr (1620)
The Duke of Milan (1621)
The Maid of Honour (1621)
The Picture (1629)
A New Way to Pay Old Debts (before 1633)

George Peele

Introduction to George Peele
The Arraignment of Paris (c. 1581-84)
The Battle of Alcazar (c. 1588-89)
The Old Wives’ Tale (c. 1590-5)
David and Bethsabe (c. 1595-6)

 

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