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Prose fiction

 * Thomas More - Utopia
 * John Lyly - Euphues
 * Thomas Nashe - The Unfortunate Traveller

Epic

 * Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene

Poetry

 * Sir Thomas Wyatt
 * Henry Howard
 * Sir Philip Sidney
 * Sir Walter Ralegh
 * Edmund Spenser
 * William Shakespeare - Sonnets 18, 130
 * John Donne
 * Andrew Marvell

Drama

 * Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
 * William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
 * William Shakespeare - Macbeth

History - from the Tudors to the Restoration (ca 1485-1660)

 * 1455: War of the roses starts
 * Edward IV of England (York) (1461-1483) (wise, liked by his subjects) (22yrs)
 * Richard III of England (York) (1483-1485) (controversial, gifted military commander, imprisoned Edward V) (2yrs)
 * 1485: War of the roses ends
 * Henry VII of England (Tudor) (1485-1509) (peace, economic prosperity, not military) (24yrs)
 * Henry VIII of England (Protestant, Tudor) (1509-1547) (38yrs)
 * Edward VI of England (Protestant, Tudor) (1547-1553) (6yrs)
 * Mary I of England (Catholic, Tudor) (1553-1558) (5yrs)
 * Elizabeth I of England (Protestant, Tudor) (1558-1603) (45yrs)
 * James I of England (Catholic, Stuart) (1603-1625) (22yrs)
 * Charles I of England (Catholic?, Stuart) (1625-1649) (24yrs)
 * Oliver Cromwell (1653-1658)
 * Charles II of England (1660-1685)
 * James II of England (1685-1689)
 * William III of England and Mary II of England (1689-1702)

Keywords

 * euphuism
 * conceit
 * interlude
 * Metaphysical poetry