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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	William Shakespeare	32,537
2	Christopher Marlowe	2,135
3	Ben Jonson	1,308
4	John Webster	410
5	John Marston	296
6	John Fletcher (playwright)	201
7	Thomas Kyd	177
8	George Chapman	167
9	Thomas Dekker (writer)	166
10	Thomas Middleton	163
11	Thomas Nashe	119
12	John Ford (dramatist)	109
13	Robert Greene (dramatist)	94
14	Francis Beaumont	81
15	Philip Massinger	77
16	George Peele	77
17	James Shirley	65
18	Thomas Heywood	57
19	William Rowley	42
20	Nicholas Udall	41
21	Nathan Field	36
22	John Day (dramatist)	35
23	Cyril Tourneur	29
24	Barnabe Barnes	28
25	Henry Chettle	27
26	George Wilkins	26
27	Robert Daborne	24
28	Robert Wilson (dramatist)	18
29	William Cartwright (dramatist)	13
30	Henry Porter (playwright)	13
31	William Haughton	11
32	Thomas Goffe	11
33	Wentworth Smith	10
34	George Whetstone	9
35	Samuel Rowley	8
36	Thomas Preston (writer)	6

Subcategories

• William Shakespeare

Parent categories

• English dramatists and playwrights
• Renaissance writers

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