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Chaucer to Shakespeare

Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400

• The Romaunt of the Roses
• The Book of the Duchess (1369)
• Anelida and Arcite 
• The Parliament of Fouls 
• Troilus and Criseyde 
• The House of Fame (incomplete) 
• The Legend of Good Women 
• The Canterbury Tales

William Langland (c. 1330-c. 1386) 

• The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman 
• A Treatise on the Astrolabe

John Barbour (c. 1320-95)

• Bruce (1375)

John Gower (1330-1408)

• Speculum Meditantis (c. 1376-78) 
• Vox Clamantis (c.1374-81) 
• Confessio Amantis

James I 1394-1437

• The King is Quair 
• Peblis to the Play 
• Christis Kirk on the Grene

Sir David Lyndsay 1490-1555

• The Dreme (1528) 
• The Testament of Squyer Meldrum 
• The Testaments and Compleyment of the Papyngo 
• The Pleasant Satyre of Thrie Estaits

Robert Henryson 1429-1508

•  Morall Fabillis of Esope 
• The Testament of Cresseid 
• Orphens and Eurydice 
• Robene and Makyne 
• Garmond of Gude Ladies

William Dunbar (1460-1530)

• Goldyn Targe 
• Thrissil and Rois 
• Dance of the Seven Deididlie Synnis 
• Lament for the Makaris

Gavin Douglas 1474-1522

• The Palice of Honour 
• King Hart 
• Conscience

John Skelton (1460-1529)

• Garland of Laurell 
• Why Come Ye not to Court 
• Dirge on Edward IV 
• Magnificence 

John Lydgate 1370-1451

• The Fall of Princes 
• The Temple of Glass 
• Story of Thebes 
• London Lickpenny

Thomas Occleve 1368-1450

• Regement of Princes 
• La Mala Regle 
• The complaint of Our Lady 
• Occleve's Complaint

Alexander Barclay 1475-1552

• Ship of Fools 
• Certayne Ecloges

Edmund Spenser 1552-1599

• The Shepheards Calendar (1579) 
• The Ruins of Time
• The Tears of the Muses 
• Mother Hubberd's Tale 
• The Ruins of the Muses 
• Amoretti 
• Epithalamion
• The Faerie Queene 
• Prothalamion 
• A View of the Present State of Ireland (Prose)

George Gascoigne (1525-77)

• The Stool Glass (1576) 
• Jocasta (1566) 
• Supposes (1566)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86)

• Astrophel and Stella (1591) 
• Arcadia (1598) 
• Apologie for Poetrie (1595) 
• The Harmony of the Church

John Donne (1573-1631)

• Of the Progress of the Soul (1601) 
• Songs and Sonnets 
• Aire and Angels 
• A Nocturnall Upon S Lucies Day 
• A Valediction : Forbidding 
• Moaning 
• The Extasie 
• The Pseudo-Martyr (1610) 
• Ignatius His Conclave (1611) 
• Dovobons (1614) 
• Death's Duell (1630)

Robert Greene (1588-92)

• Alphonsus, King of Aragon (1587) 
• Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay (1589)
• Orlando Furioso (1591) 
• The So High History of James the Fourth (1592)

Thomas Nash (1567-1601)

• Summer's Last Will and Testament (1592) 
• The Unfortunate Traveller, Or the Life of Jack Wilton (1594) 

Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)

• The Wounds of Civil War 
• Rosalynde (1590) 
• Legacie (1590)

Christopher Marlowe (1564-93)

• Tamburlaine the Great (1587) 
• The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great (1588) 
• The Jew of malta (1589)
• Edward II (1591) 
• Doctor Faustus (1592) 
• The Tragedy of Dido, 
• Queen of Carthage (1593) 
• The Massacre at Paris (1593)-(Unfinished)

George Peele (1558-98)

• The Arraignment of Paris (1584) 
• The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First (1593) 
• The Old Wives Tale (1594) 
• The Love of King David and Fair Bethasabe (1599)

Richard Lovelace (1618-58)

• Lucasta (1649)
• To Althea From Prison
• To Lucasta going to the Wars

Sir John Suckling (1609-42)

• Ballad upon a Wedding 
• Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• Venus and Adonis (1593) 
• The Rape of Lucree (1594) 
• The Passionate Pilgrim (1599) 
• Henry VI (1591-92) 
• Richard III (1593) 
• The Comedy of Errors (1593) 
• Titus Andronicus (1594) 
• The Taming of the Shrew (1594) 
• Love's Labour Lost (1594) 
• Romeo and Juliet (1594) 
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) 
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1595) 
• King John (1595) 
• Richard ll (1596) 
• The Merchant of Venice (1596) 
• Henry IV (1597) 
• Much Ado About Nothing (1598) 
• Henry V (1599) 
• Julius Caesar (1599) 
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600)
• As You Like It (1600) 
• Hamlet(1601) 
• Twelfth Night (1601) 
• Troilus And Cressyede (1602) 
• All's Well That Ends Well (1602) 
• Measure for Measure (1604) 
• Othello (1604) 
• Macbeth (1605) 
• King Lear (1605) 
• Antony and Cleopatra (1606) 
• Coriolanus (1606) 
• Timon of Athens (1607) - (Unfinished) 
• Pericles (1608) 
• Cymbeline (1609) 
• The Winter's Tale (1610) 
• The Tempest (1611) 
• Henry VII (1613)

Thomas Kyd (1558-94

• The Spanish Tragedie (1585) 
• Cornelia (1593)

Ben Jonson (1573-1637)

• Every Man in His Humour (1598) 
• Every Man out of His Humour (1599) 
• Cynthia's Revels (1600) 
• The Poetaster (1601) 
• Volpone, or the Fox (1605) 
• Epicaene, or the Silent Woman (1609) 
• The Alchemist (1610) 
• Bartholomew Fayre (1614) 
• The Devil is an Ass (1616) 
• The Staple of News (1625) 
• Sejanus his Fall (1603) 
• Catline his Conspiracy (1611) 
• The Masque of Beauty (1608) 
• The Masque of Queens (1609)
• Oberon, Tho Fairy Princess (1611) 
• Underwoods (lyrics) 

John Webster (1578-1634)

• The White Devil (1612) 
• The Duchess of Malfi (1614) 

Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) 

• The Devil's Law Case (1623) 

John Fletcher (1579-1625)

• The Faithful Shepherdess

 Francis Beaumont  and John Fletcher (Jointly wrote)

• A Kind of No King (1611) 
• The Night of the Burning Pestle (1607) 
• The Scornful Lady (1616) 
• The Maid's Tragedy (1610) 
• Philaster (1611)

George Chapman (1559-1634)

• The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) 
• Busy d Ambois (1604) 
• Charles Duke of Byron (1608) 
• The Tragedy of Chabot (1613) 
• All Fools (1605)
• Eastward Hoe (1605) (He also translated Homer)

Thomas Malorie (d. 1471)

• Morte de Arthur

Reginald Peacock 13901461

• Tho Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy(1445) 
• The Book of Faith

William Caxton (1422-91)

• Recuyell of the Histories of Troye (1471) 
• Game and Playe of the Chesse (1475)

John Fisher (1459-1535)

• The Ways of Perfect Religion

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

• Utopia (1551) English Translation 
• The Life of John Picus 
• The Historie of Richard III