一般注記Introduction -- Biographies -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) -- Ben Jonson (1572-1637) -- Francis Beaumonth (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625) -- Actors -- The Sidney Circle -- Edmund Spenser (c.1552-99) -- George Chapman (c.1559-1634) -- Michael Drayton (1563-1631) -- John Donne (1572-1631) -- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604) -- Sir John Harington (1562-1612) -- Maids of Honour -- Pamphleteers -- Travel Writers -- Scientists -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Sir Walter Ralegh (c.1554-1618) -- Patrons.