Plays and Masques

• Milton's most notable masque is Comus or "A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634"

• Jonson's masque, titled Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue

• Shakespeare's plays include comedies (i.e. A Midsummer Night's Dream), tragedies (i.e. Othello), and histories (i.e. Richard III)

• Christopher Marlowe writes Doctor Faustus

Poetry

Blank Verse

• Milton's Paradise Lost

Sonnets

• Shakespeare writes 154 sonnets

• John Milton

• George Herbert

• Sir Thomas Wyatt's "The Long Love That in my Thought Doth Harbour"

• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's "Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace"

Sonnet Sequences

• Sidney's Astrophel and Stella

• Spenser's Amoretti

Many other forms of verse existed: classical verse, "elegiac couplets" (hexameter followed by pentameter), lyric forms, etc.

Prose

Books

• Ascham's The Schoolmaster

• Bacon's The New Atlantis

• More's Utopia

Essays

• Francis Bacon composes essays on many subjects (including Of Gardens, Of Innovations, Of Prophecies, and Of Studies)

• Montaigne writes essays that are translated
  

Translations

• Sir Thomas North translates Plutarch's Parallel Lives

• Arthur Golding, William Caxton, Carel van Mander, George Sandys, John Marston, Henry Reynolds translate Ovid

• Many people translated the Bible into the vernacular, including the 1611 appearance of the King James Authorized Version

• Earl of Surrey translates parts of Virgil's Aeneid

• Michel de Montaigne's essays translated from French (most notably by John Florio)

• George Chapman translates Homer's works

• Wyatt translates Petrarch's sonnets

• Sir Thomas Hoby translates Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier