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Early Modern

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1570

The Scholemaster

Roger Ascham

1625

Essays

Francis Bacon

1684

Selected Poetry

Aphra Behn

1688

Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave

Aphra Behn

1643

Religio Medici

Thomas Browne

1658

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Thomas Browne

various

Selected Poetry

Thomas Carew

1613

Tragedie of Mariam

Elizabeth Cary

1561

The Courtier (Hoby trans.)

Baldassare Castiglione

1666

The Blazing World

Margaret Cavendish

1668

The Convent of Pleasure

Margaret Cavendish

various

Selected Poetry

Richard Crashaw

1599

The Shoemaker's Holiday

Thomas Dekker

1611

The Roaring Girl

Dekker & Middleton

c.1615-1631

Holy Sonnets

John Donne

c.1595-1631

Songs and Sonnets

John Donne

c.1595-1631

Satires and Elegies

John Donne

various

Poems and Speeches to Parliament

Elizabeth I

1633

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

John Ford

1563

Acts and Monuments (selections)

John Foxe

1579

School of Abuse / Anatomy of Abuses

Gosson / Stubbes

1633

The Temple

George Herbert

1648

Hesperides

Robert Herrick

1631

The Fair Maid of the West 1 & 2

Thomas Heywood

1612

Apology for Actors

Thomas Heywood

1594

Four Prentices of London

Thomas Heywood

1605-1621

Masques (Blackness, Beauty, Gypsies)

Ben Jonson

1606

Volpone

Ben Jonson

1612

The Alchemist

Ben Jonson

1616

Epicoene

Ben Jonson

c.1598-1637

Selected Poetry

Ben Jonson

1611

Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum + To Cooke-ham

Amelia Lanyer

1560

A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner

Ann Lok

1592

Gallathea

John Lyly

1587-8

Tamburlaine

Christopher Marlowe

1589

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe

1592

Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

1594

Edward II

Christopher Marlowe

c.1650-1667

Selected Poetry

Andrew Marvell

1624

The Renegado

Philip Massinger

1657

Women Beware Women

Thomas Middleton

1607

Revenger's Tragedy

Thomas Middleton

1622

The Changeling

Thomas Middleton

1644

Areopagitica

John Milton

1667

Paradise Lost

John Milton

c.1630-1667

Sonnets

John Milton

1603

Selected Essays (Florio trans.)

Michel de Montaigne

1516

Utopia

Thomas More

1594

The Unfortunate Traveller

Thomas Nash

c.1650-1664

Selected Poetry

Katherine Phillips

c.1640-1660

Selected Poetry

Hester Pulter

c.1655-1662

The Unfortunate Florinda

Hester Pulter

1589-1620

Querelle des femmes texts

Various

1595

Richard II

William Shakespeare

1595

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

1598

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

1601

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

1604

Othello

William Shakespeare

1605

King Lear

William Shakespeare

1608

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnets

William Shakespeare

1591

Astrophil and Stella

Philip Sidney

1593

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Philip Sidney

1595

The Defence of Poesy

Philip Sidney

c.1505-1523

Selected Poetry

John Skelton

1557

Songs and Sonnets (Tottel's Miscellany)

Richard Tottel (compiler)

1590

The Faerie Queene (at least 3 books)

Edmund Spenser

1595

Amoretti and Epithalamium

Edmund Spenser

1596

A View of the Present State of Ireland

Edmund Spenser

1650/1685

Selected Poetry (Silex Scintillans)

Henry Vaughan

1612

The White Devil

John Webster

1623

The Duchess of Malfi

John Webster

1573

Will and Testament

Isabella Whitney

1621

Pamphilia to Amphilantus

Mary Wroth

1621

Urania, Book One

Mary Wroth

c.1665-1678

Selected Poetry

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

various

Race in Early Modern England (Loomba & Burton, eds.)

Various

various

Travel Narrative Selections (Las Casas, Raleigh, Harriot, Smith, etc.)

Various

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