Here is a brief list of the major authors, playwrights, and poets of the English Renaissance. Some writers fall into more than one category. It is a partial and representative list rather than a comprehensive one. Do note the unfortunate absence of female authors.... Authors: Chapman, George (1559?-1634), poet, dramatist, translated classics like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Coverdale, Miles (1488?-1569), translator--Bible. Tyndale, William (1492?-1536), translator, tract writer--New Testament (trans.). Bacon, Sir Francis (1561-1626), philosopher, essayist--New Atlantis; 'The Advancement of Learning," Essays. Lyly, John (1554?-1606), novelist, dramatist--"Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit"; "Euphues and His England." More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535), prose writer--Utopia. Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-86), poet, novelist--'Astrophel and Stella'; Arcadia.