<P> Other cultural historians have countered that, regardless of whether the name "renaissance" is apt, there was undeniably an artistic flowering in England under the Tudor monarchs, culminating in Shakespeare and his contemporaries . </P> <P> Major literary figures in the English Renaissance include: </P> <Ul> <Li> Francis Bacon </Li> <Li> Francis Beaumont </Li> <Li> Thomas Campion </Li> <Li> George Chapman </Li> <Li> Francis Hubert </Li> <Li> Thomas Dekker </Li> <Li> John Donne </Li> <Li> John Fletcher </Li> <Li> John Ford </Li> <Li> Ben Jonson </Li> <Li> Thomas Kyd </Li> <Li> Christopher Marlowe </Li> <Li> Philip Massinger </Li> <Li> Thomas Middleton </Li> <Li> Thomas More </Li> <Li> Thomas Nashe </Li> <Li> William Rowley </Li> <Li> William Shakespeare </Li> <Li> James Shirley </Li> <Li> Philip Sidney </Li> <Li> Edmund Spenser </Li> <Li> William Tyndale </Li> <Li> John Webster </Li> <Li> Thomas Wyatt </Li> </Ul>

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