- Gorboduc, the first English tragedy, is written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville. - Ralph Roister Doister, the first Comedy in English, is written by Nicholas Udall. - The Faerie Queene is a famous epic of Edmund Spencer. - Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, the first English novel, is written by Samuel Richardson. Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Website Lecture.