Some of William Shakespeare's Contemporaries

	Philip Henslowe (c. 1550 - 6 January 1616) was an Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario. Henslowe's modern reputation rests on the survival of his "Diary", a primary source for information about the the Richard Burbage (7 January 1568 – 13 March 1619) was an actor and theatre owner. He was the younger brother of Cuthbert Burbage. They were both actors in drama.atrical world of Renaissance London.
	William Kempe (died 1603?), also spelled Kemp, was an English actor and dancer best known for being one of the original actors in William Shakespeare's plays. John Heminges (sometimes spelled Hemminge or Hemings) (c. 1556 - 1630) was an English Renaissance actor.[1][2] Most famous now as one of the editors of Shakespeare's 1623 First Folio, Heminges served in his time as an actor and financial manager for the King's Men.
	Edward Alleyn (1 September 1566 – 25 November 1626) was an English actor who was a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre and founde Edmund Tilney (c. 1536 - 1610) was a courtier best known now as Master of the Revels to Elizabeth I and James I, a position within the British royal household heading the "Revels Office" or "Office of the Revels" that originally had responsibilities for overseeing royal festivities, known as revels, and later also became responsible for stage censorship.r of Dulwich College and Alleyn's School.
	Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own mysterious and untimely death. John Webster (c.1580 – c.1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.[1] He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare.
	George Bryan (fl. 1586 – 1613) was an actor in English Renaissance theatre, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men with William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage.