Authors

**English Authors of the Renaissance**


George Chapman (1559?-1634); poet and dramatist - translated classics such as Homer's __Iliad__ and __Odyssey__.



Miles Coverdale (1488?-1569); translator - the Bible

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626); philosopher and essayist - __New Atlantis__; "The Advancement of Learning"



Sir Thomas More (1478-1535); prose writer - __Utopia__

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586); poet and novelist - "Astrophel and Stella", __Arcadia__



William Shakespeare (1564-1616); dramatist and poet - __As You Like It__, __Hamlet__, __MacBeth__, __King Lear__, __The Tempest__, and others. "Sonnets"



Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599); poet - __The Faery Queen__, "The Shepherds' Calendar"