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English Renaissance theatre
Theatre of England between 1562 and 1642 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The English Renaissance theatre or Elizabethan theatre was the theatre of England from 1558 to 1642. Its most prominent playwrights were William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson.
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