Exploring the Impact of Elizabethan and Jacobean Playwrights Kidd is said to have written an early version of the Hamlet story as well John Webster's plays were also popular as were those of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to name only a few. These writers transformed European drama and popularised a number of themes familiar to audiences in the present day such as mistaken identity revenge insanity supernatural events and ghostly visitations romances between couples separated by family diffe