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| 1549 |
| | | The first version of the English prayer book, or Book of Common Prayer, is published with text by Thomas Cranmer | |
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| 1564 |
| | | Marlowe and Shakespeare are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by two months | |
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| 1567 |
| | | The Book of Common Prayer and the New Testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588 | |
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| 1582 |
| | | The 18-year-old William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway in Stratford-upon-Avon | |
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| 1587 |
| | | Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama | |
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| 1590 |
| | | English poet Edmund Spenser celebrates the Protestant Elizabeth I as The Faerie Queene | |
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| 1592 |
| | | After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III | |
|  | William Shakespeare, engraving by Martin Droeshout, 1623
National Portrait Gallery, London
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| 1601 |
| | | Shakespeare's central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disillusion of a less confident age | |
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| 1604 |
| | | James I commissions the Authorized version of the Bible, which is completed by forty-seven scholars in seven years | |
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| 1604 |
| | | William Shakespeare's name appears among the actors in a list of the King's Men | |
|  | List of the King's Men in 1604, including Shakespeare
National Archives, Kew
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