An extremely prolific English poet and playwright who worked in a wide range of poetic genres and who frequently collaborated on plays with Henry Chettle and Thomas Dekker. Among Drayton's many publications, just a few of note include Idea. The Shepheards Garland (1593); Ideas Mirrour (1594); Endimion and Phobe (1595); Englands Heroicall Epistles (1597); Poly-Olbion (1612-1622); The Battaile of Agincourt (1627); and Nimphidia, the Court of Fayrie (1627). He also published several volumes of poems on historical or mythical personages and historical subjects.