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I guess this depends some on what you mean by era.. In terms of simple dates, Shakespeare wrote most of his plays between 1589 and 1613. If you are talking about what literary era he was writing in, people tend to say that he was part of the English Renaissance. If you are asking about historical eras, most people associate Shakespeare with Elizabethan England.
Marlowe, in addition to the widely-popular Shakespeare, was one of the most well-known playwrights of the Elizabethan era. A contemporary of Shakespeare's to the year (both writers were born in 1564), Marlowe is credited with writing one of the first English plays in blank verse, Tamburlaine.he reign of Queen Elizabeth lasted from 1558 until her death in 1603, during which time the arts in England thrived. Fine arts received support and encouragement from the Queen that was unparalleled by any other English monarch; and as a result, the authors and works of this time period came to be known as Elizabethan.