A popular style of theatre during Jacobean times was the revenge play, which had been popularised earlier in the Elizabethan era by Thomas Kyd (1558-94), and then subsequently developed by John Webster (1578-1632) in the 17th century.
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry, a closet drama written by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary (1585-1639) and first published in 1613, was the first original play in English known to have been written by a woman.