It's been a long time since I've dipped into these waters, but I found an old syllabus that gives a pretty broad overview:
The Spanish Tragedy (Kyd)
Endymion (Lyly)
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 (Marlowe)
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe)
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Greene)
Edward II (Marlowe)
Arden of Faversham (Anon.)
Shoemaker's Holiday (Dekker)
The Malcontent (Marston)
From another course, I can't find the syllabus but I have some old essays and particularly remember enjoying:
Women Beware Women (Middleton)
The Revenger's Tragedy (Middleton... maybe)
Love's Cure (Beaumont and Fletcher... maybe)
The Roaring Girl (Dekker and Middleton)
Ram-Alley (Barry)
The first two on this shorter list are such outrageously tragical tragedies that they wrap back around to farce; I found them extremely funny.
Edit to add: the Northon Anthology of Early English Drama has a lot of these, though not all.
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