• Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, the first English novel, is written by Samuel Richardson. • Beowulf is the Earliest Epic in English literature.• Gorboduc, the first English tragedy, is written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville.• Volpone is a famous play which was written by Ben Jonson.Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Website Lecture.