title: Elizabethan literature
text: Elizabethan literature refers to books written during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). It is one of the greatest ages of English literature. New forms of poetry appeared during this period, such as the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and dramatic blank verse; as well as prose, including pamphlets, and the first English novels.
  
  The main writers include William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Hooker, Ben Jonson, Philip Sidney and Thomas Kyd.
  
  References 
  
  English literature