Were there any other "great" playwrites of Shakespeare's time whose fame was overshadowed by Shakespeare?

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Were there any other "great" playwrites of Shakespeare's time whose fame was overshadowed by Shakespeare?

2007-11-13 09:36:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting

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Christopher Marlowe (nicknamed Kit)

Aphra Behn (first English female professional playwright)

Thomas Kyd

Edmund Spenser

Ben Jonson

2007-11-13 09:53:20 · answer #1 · answered by Heaven Leigh 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋

with all due respect to your other answerer, no. We have their plays and if they were really good, we would be producing them all the time, but we are not. Sorry guys, there was only one great Elizabethan playwright, Wm Shakespeare.

2007-11-13 17:55:59 · answer #2 · answered by Theatre Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

I'm gonna have to agree with Doc.

There is a reason why the Bard's plays are still being produced.

And it's "playwright"

2007-11-15 00:54:52 · answer #3 · answered by d_cider1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋