Sixteenth Century
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Europe in General
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Beacon Lights of History
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Volume 6 -- Renaissance and Reformation
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Volume 8, The Later Renaissance, 1438-1516
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The Great Events by Famous Historians edited by Rossiter Johnson, volume
10
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Heroes of Modern Europe by Alice Birkhead
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The Palace of Pleasure: Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels
translated by William Painter, volume 1
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Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama by Walter Greg
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A Political and Social History of Modern Europe 1500-1815, volume 1 by
Carlton Hayes
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History of the Catholic Church by James MacCaffrey
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Volume 1
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Volume 2
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Sea Wolves of the Meditaerranean: the Grand Period of Moslem Corsairs by
E. Hamilton Currey
Great Britain (including Scotland and Wales)
British history
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A Declaration of the Causes which Mooved the Chiefe Commanders of the Navie
of Her Most Excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in Their Voyage and
Expedition for Portugal, 1589
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Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Spalding, 1880
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England Under the Tudors by Arthur Innes
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English Seamen in the 16th Century by James Anthony Froude
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The History of England by A.F. Pollard
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The History of England, volume 1, by David Hume
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A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drake's West Indian Voyage
by Baptista Boazio, 1589
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At the Sign of the Barber's Pole: Studies in Hirsute History by William
Andrews
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Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by William
Wood
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Henry VIII by A.F. Pollard
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History of the English People, volume 4, 1540-1593 by John Richard Green
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A Short History of English Printing 1476-1898 by Henry Plomer
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All's Well: Alice's Victory by Emily Sarah Holt (historical novel)
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Henry VIII and His Court by Louise Muhlbach (historical novel)
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The Reign of Mary Tudor by james Anthony Froude
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When Knighthood Was in Flower by Edwin Caskoden (AKA Charles Major)
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Sir Ludar, a Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines
Reed (historical novel)
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Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley
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Sir Walter Raleigh by William Stebbing
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Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley (historical novel)
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The Historie of England, from the time that it was first inhabited until
the time that it was last conquered, by Raphael Holinshed, d. 1580
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book one
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book two
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book three
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book four
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book five
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book six
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book seven
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book eight
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Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, volume 2 = England,
beginning at Duke William of Normandy (the Conqueror), by Raphael Holinshed,
d. 1580
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part 1 of 12
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part 2 of 12
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part 3 of 12
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part 4 of 12
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part 5 of 12
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part 6 of 12
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English
Nation by Richard Haklyut (1552-1616)
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Volume 1 -- Northern Europe
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Volume 2-- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 1 Tartary
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Volume 3 -- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 2 The Muscovy
Company and the North-Eastern Passage, Section 1
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Volume 4 -- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 2 The Muscovy
Company and the North-Eastern Passage, Section 2
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Volume 5 -- Central and Southern Europe
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Volume 6 -- Madeira and the Canaries; Ancient Asia, Africa, Etc.
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Volume 7 -- England's Naval Exploits Against Spain
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Volume 8 -- Asia Part 1
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Volume 9 -- Asia Part 2
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Volume 10 -- Asia Part 3
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Volume 11 -- Africa
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Volume 12 -- English Nation in America
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Voyager's Tales
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Voyages in Search of the Northwest Passage
Collections and Criticism
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Best of the World's Classics, edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, volume 3, Great
Britain and Ireland
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Collection of Old English Plays edited by A.H. Bullen (1882-1889)
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Volume 1 of 4 (as a single document)
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The Tragedy of Nero
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The Mayde's Metamorphosis
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The Martyr'd Souldier
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The Noble Souldier
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Volume 2 of 4 (as a single document)
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Dick of Devonshire
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The Lady Mother
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The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
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Captian Underwit
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Volume 3 of 4 (as a single document)
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Sir Gyles Goosecappe
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The Wisdome of Dr. Dodypoll
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The Distracted Emperor
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The Tyall of Chevalry
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Volume 4 of 4 (as a single document)
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Two Tragedies in One by Robert Yarington
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The Captives by Thomas Heywood
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The Costlie Whore
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Everie Woman in Her Humor
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Select Collection of Old EnglishPlays, originally published by Robert Dodsley
1744, edited by W. Carew Hazlitt (1874-76)
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Volume 1 (as a single document)
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Interlude of the Four Elements
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Calisto and Melibaa
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Everyman: a Moral Play
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Hickscorner
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The Parndoner and the Friar
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The World and the Child
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God's Promises
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The Four P.P.
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A New Interlude called Thersites
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Volume 2 (as a single document)
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The Interlude of Youth
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Lusty Juventus
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Jack Juggler
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A Pretty Interlude called Nice Wanton
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The History of Jacob and Esau
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The Disobedient Child
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The Marriage of Wit and Science
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Volume 6 (as a single document)
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The Conflict of Conscience
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The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
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The Three Ladies of London
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The Three Ladies and Three Lords of London
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A Knack to Know a Knave
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Volume 7 (as a single document)
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Tancred and Gismunda
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The Wounds of Civil War
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Mucedorus
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The Two Angry Women of ABinton
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Look About You
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Volume 8 (as a single document)
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The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington
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The Death of Robert Eal of Huntington
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Contention between Liberality and Prodigality
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Grim the Collier of Croydon
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Volume 9 (as a single document)
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How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad
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The Return from Parnassus
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Wily Beguiled
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Lingua
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The Miseries of Enforced Marriage
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Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles editd by Martha Crow
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An English Garner: Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903)
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Pembroke Bookslets, first series, number 3
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Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton
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Selected Poetry by George Withe
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Pastoral Poetry by William Browne of Tavistock
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Popular Ballads of the Olden Time, edited by Frank Sidgwick
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first series, Romance and Chivalry
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third series, Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance
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Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance by Donald Clark (1922)
Anonymous
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Everyman
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The Interlude of Wealth and Health, 1537
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A Joyfull Medytacyon to All Englande [on the coronation of Henry VIII]
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Roister Doister (before 1553)
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Spare Your Good
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The Third and Last Part of Conny- Catching by R.G. (1592)
Roger Ascham (1515-1568)
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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The Advancement of Learning
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Essays
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Of Truth
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Of Death
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Of Unity in Religion
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Of Revenge
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Of Adversity
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Of Simulation and Dissimulation
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Of Parents and Children
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Of Marriage and Single Life
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Of Envy
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Of Love
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Of Great Place
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Of Boldness
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Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
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Of Nobility
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Of Seditions and Troubles
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Of Atheism
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Of Superstition
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Of Travel
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Of Empire
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Of Counsel
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Of Delays
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Of Cunning
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Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
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Of Innovations
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Of Dispatch
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Of Seeming Wise
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Of Friendship
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Of Expense
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Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
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Of Regiment of Health
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Of Suspicion
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Of Discourse
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Of Plantations
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Of Riches
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Of Prophecies
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Of Ambition
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Of Mosques and Triumphs
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Of Nature in Men
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Of Custom and Education
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Of Fortune
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Of Usury
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Of Youth and Age
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Of Beauty
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Of Deformity
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Of Building
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Of Gardens
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Of Negotiating
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Of Followers and Friends
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Of Suitors
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Of Studies
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Of Faction
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Of Ceremonies and Respects
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Of Praise
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Of Vain-glory
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Of Honor and Reputation
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Of Judicature
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Of Anger
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Of Vicissitude of Things
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Of Fame
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The New Atlantis
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Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature
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about Bacon
Richard Barnfield (1574-1627)
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Affectionate Shepherd, 1594
Thomas Betson
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A Ryght Profytable Treatyse, c. 1500
Richard Carew (1555-1620)
William Caxton (1415?1422?-1492)
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Game and Playe of Chesse, 1474
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Caxton's Book of Curtesye, 1477-1478
Henrie Chettle
Thomas Cockaine
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A Short Treatise of Hunting
Henry Constable
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Diana
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Diana plus Delia by Samuel Daniel in Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles edited by
Martha Foote Crow
Samuel Daniel
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Delia, plus Diana by Henry Constable, in Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles edited
by Martha Foote Crow
Michael Drayton
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Endimion and Phoebe
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Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, chosen and edited by Cyril Brett
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
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Lawes and Ordinances Militarie
Queen Elizabeth I
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Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
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Speech to Her Last Parliament (the Golden Speech)
Sir Thomas Elyot
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The Boke named The Governour
Giles Fletcher
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Licia plus Phillis by Thomas Lodge in Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles edited
by Martha Foote Crow
George Gascoigne
Everard Guilpin
Robert Greene
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Greene's Groat's Worth of Wit
Lady Jane Grey
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Proclamation Of Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England, 1553 (short)
Sir Thomas Hoby
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The Book of the Courtier by Count Baldessar Castilio, translated to English
by Sir Thomas Hoby
Alexander Hume
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Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue
William Kemp
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Nine Daies Wonder (short)
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Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed frmo London to Norwich (longer)
John Knox
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The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
by John Knox, originally published in 1558, edition of 1878
Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)
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The Spanish Tragedie (play)
Thomas Lodge
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Phillis plus Licia by Giles Fletcher in Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles edited
by Martha Foote Crow
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Rosalynde
John Lydgate
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The Assemble of Goddes, 1500
John Lyly
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John Lyly by John Dover Wilson
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
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Dr. Faustus (play)
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Edward the Second
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Hero and Leander
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Hero and Leander and Other Poems
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The Jew of Malta (play)
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Massacre at Paris (play)
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Tamburlaine the Great, part 1 (play)
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Tamburlaine the Great, part 2 (play)
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Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage (with Thomas Nash), 1594
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Works of Chritopher Marlowe, volume 3 (Hero and Leander, Ovid's Elegies,
Epigrams, First book of Lucan, Passionate Shepherd)
Andrew Melville
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Andrew Melville by William Morrison
Thomas More (1478-1535)
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Complete Poems
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Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, 1557
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Richard III
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Utopia
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
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Pierce Pennilesse
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Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage (with Christopher Marlowe), 1594
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The Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jack Wilton
John Norden
William Percy
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Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (short)
George Puttenham
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The Art of English Poesie, 1589
Robert Rait
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An Outline of the Relations Between England and Scotland 500-1707
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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plays -- the Mobey electronic edition
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All's Well that Ends Well
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Antony and Cleopatra
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As You Like It
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Comedy of Errors
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Coriolanus
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Cymbeline
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Hamlet
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Henry IV Part 1
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Henry IV Part 2
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Henry V
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Henry VI Part 1
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Henry VI Part 2
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Henry VI Part 3
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Henry VIII
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Julius Caesar
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King John
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King Lear
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Love's Labor Lost
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Macbeth
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Measure for Measure
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Merchant of Venice
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Merry Wives of Windsor
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Midsummer Night's Dream
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Othello
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Pericles Prince of Tyre
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Richard II
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Richard III
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Romeo and Juliet
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Taming of the Shrew
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Tempest
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Timon of Athens
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Titus Andronicus
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Troilus and Cressida
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Twelfth Night
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Winter's Tale
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plays -- the first folio (35 plays in a single document)
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Cambridge Edition
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other editions
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King Henry V, with ntoes by Charles Kean
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plays attritubuted in part to Shakespeare
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Comedy of Mucedorus
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Faire Em
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King Edward III
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Life and Death of Lord Cromwell
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The London Prodigal
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The Merry Devill
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The Puritaine Widdow
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Two Noble Kinsmen
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Sir Thomas More
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Tragedy of Locrine
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A Yorkshire Tragedy
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poetry
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Lover's Complaint
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Passionate Pilgrim
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Rape of Lucrece
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Sonnets
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Venus and Adonis
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related materials
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The Age of Shakespeare by algernon Swinburne
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Bacon is Shake-speare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
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The Facts about Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson
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glossary
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Is Shakespeare Dead?
by Mark Twain
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The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris
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Notes to Shakespeare, Volume 1, Comedies by Samuel Johnson
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Notes to Shakespeare Volume 3, Tragedies by Samuel Johnson
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The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner
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The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare by Delia Bacon
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Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
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Shakespeare and Precious Stones by George Frederick Kunz
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Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown by Andrew Lang
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Shakespeare und die Bacon-Mythen (in German) by Kuno Fischer
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Shakespeare's Bones by C.M. Ingleby
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Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Arthur Acheson
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Shakespeare and the Modern Stage by Signey Lee
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Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
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Shakespeare and Music by Edward Naylor
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Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley, 1919
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Some Account of the Life of William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe, 1709
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The Tragedie of Hamlet: a Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George
MacDonald
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Tales from Shakespeare
by Charles and Mary Lamb
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Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess in the Year 1596 by Anna Benneson
McMahan (historical novel)
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Shakspere Personal Recollections by Colonel John A. Joyce (historical novel)
Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
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Tragedie of Antonie by Robert Garnier, translated by Mary Sidney
Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
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Astrophel and Stella
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Defence of Poesie
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Lady of May (short poem)
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
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Amoretti and Epithalamion
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Astrophel and Stella
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Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
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Complaints
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Daphnaïda
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The Faerie Queene
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Letter to Raleigh
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Mutabilitie Cantos
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Hymnes
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Letters to Gabriel Harvey
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Mother Hubberd's Tale
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Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, volume 5 (1860)
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Prothalamion
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The Ruines of Time
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The Shephearde's Calender
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Sonnets
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Teares of the Muses
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View of the Present State of Ireland
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Virgil's Gnat
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About Edmund Spenser
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A Biography of Edmund Spenser by John Hales
Thomas Wilson
France
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Franco-Gallia or an Account of the Antient Free State of France by Francis
Hotoman, 1574
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Le Catalogue des Livres Censurez par la Faculte de Theologie de Paris,
1544
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Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality by Charles Morris, volume 6, French
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Exiled for the Faith, a Tale of the Huguenot Persecution by W.H.G. Kingston
(historical novel)
Alexandre Dumas (historical novels set in the 16th century)
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La Reine Margot (in French)
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Chicot the Jester (translation of La Dame de Monsoreau)
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The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre (1492-1549)
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Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, Written by Herself,
Being Historic Memoirs of the Courts of France and Navarre (3 volumes in
one file)
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Heptameron (in English)
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volume 1
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volume 2
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volume 3
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volume 4
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volume 5
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
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Essays, translated to English by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew
Hazlitt
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Volume 1
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Volume 2
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Volume 3
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Volume 4
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Volume 5
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Volume 6
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Volume 7
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Volume 8
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Volume 9
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Volume 10
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Montaigne et Francois Bacon by Pierre Villey (in French)
Francois Rabelais (1483-1553)
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his
son Pantagruel, translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty
and Peter Antony Motteux
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Book 1
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Book 2
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Book 3
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Book 4
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Book 5
Germany
Martin Luther (1483-1546) and the Lutheran Church
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95 Theses by Martin Luther (short)
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Augsburg Confession by Philip Melancthon (short)
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Augsburg Confession in Latin and German by Philip Melancthon
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An Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Philip Melancthon
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Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther
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Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther
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An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism by Joseph Stump, 1910
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The Large Catechism by Martin Luther
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Life of Luther by Julius Kostlin
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Little Instruction Book by Martin Luther (short)
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Open Letter on Translating by Martin Luther (short)
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Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther, translated by Captain
Henry Bell
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The Smalcald Articles by Martin Luther (short)
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Treatise on Good Works by Martin Luther
Theophrastus Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists
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The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers
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Coelum Philosophorum
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The Aurora of the Philosophers
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Alchemical Catechism
Albrecht Durer (1471-1518)
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Albrecht Durer's Records [letters/memoirs] of Journeys to Venice and the
Low Countries
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Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore
India
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Akbar, Emperor of India: a Picture of Life and Customs from the Sixteenth
Century by Richard von Garbe
Italy
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
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Jerome Cardan, a Biographical Study by W.G. Waters
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The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas (from Celebrated Crimes)
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio
Vasari
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Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
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In Italian with accents Orlando Furioso
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In Italian without accents, Orlando Furioso
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In English translation: Orlando Furioso
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
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The Heroic Enthusiasts
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Giordano Bruno by Walter Pater (short)
Michael Angelo Buonarroti (1475-1567)
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The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella, translated
by John Symonds
Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)
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The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Bunarroti and Tommaso Campanella, translated
by John Symonds
Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
Francesco Colonna (?-1527)
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Hypnerotomachia: the Strife of Love in a Dream by Francesco Colonna, 1592
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Leonardo da Vinci by Maurice Brockwell
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Volume 1
Volume 2
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering
Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke
di Gravina Orsini (short)
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The Art of War translated by Peter Whitehouse (1560) and the Prince translated
by Edward Dacres (1640)
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The History of Florence
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Life of Castruccio Castracani of Luccai (short)
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The Prince
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Discourses on the First 10 Books of Livy
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
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Jerusalem Delivered translated to English by Edward Fairfax
Japan
Netherlands
John Lothrop Motley
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Rise of the Dutch Republic 1555-66 (10 volumes in one file)
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Rise of the Dutch Republic 1566-74 (11 volumes in one file)
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Rise of the Dutch Republic 1574-84 (11 volumes in one file)
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History of the United Netherlands 1584-86 (10 volumes in one file)
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History of the United Netherlands 1586-89 (11 volumes in one file)
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History of the United Netherlands 1590-99 (11 volumes in one file)
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History of the Revolt of the Netherlands by Frederick Schiller
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Holland: The History of the Netherlands by Thomas Colley Grattan
Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)
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The Colloquies of Erasmus, translated by N. Bailey
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A Merry Dialogue
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The Praise of Folly, translated by John Wilson, 1668
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Selections from Erasmus edited by P.S. Allen
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Two Dyaloges
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A Very Pleasaunt and Fruitful Dialogue, translated 1545
Philippines
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Doctrina Christiana, first book printed in the Phillipines, 1593
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The Philippine Islands 1493-1898
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volume 1 1493-1529
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volume 2 1521-1569
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volume 3 1569-1576
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volume 4 1576-1582
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volume 5 1582-1583
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volume 6 1583-1588
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volume 7 1588-1591
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volume 8 1591-1593
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volume 9 1593-1597
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volume 10 1597-1599
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volume 11 1599-1602
Spain, Latin America, and the Caribbean
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Across the Spanish Main by Harry Collingwood (historical novel)
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Christopher Columbus by Filson Young
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Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley
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The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving
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Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving, from the mss.
of Fray Antonio Agapida
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History of the Conquest of Peru by William Prescott
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History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella by William Prescott
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Volume 1
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Volume 2
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Volume 3
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Maya Chronicles edited by Daniel Brinton
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The Treasure of the Incas by G.A. Henty (historical novel)
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Switzerland
Sebastian Brant (1458-1521)
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The Ship of Fools, translated by Alexander Barclay
Pacific
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Adventures in Southern Seas, a tale of the sixteenth century by George
Forbes
This Sixteenth Century CD, with 347 works of history, and
literature, in plain text, is available
for $19 at our online store.
How to install
and use the free ReadPlease software included on this CD
Click here if you would like to install this software. When you click
on that link, you will be asked wheter you want to save it on your computer
or just run it. Choose Save -- it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose
Save. Then select which version you want to install and the directory that
you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation is done,
you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop.
When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the
texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text file you have). Click
on Play and it will start "reading" the book aloud to you. Highlight a
chunk of text (of any size) with your browser and then click on Selection,
and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow
you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font
size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with
the right and left arrows).
When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting
moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you
can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor,
click you mouse, and type whatever you like -- for instance, annotation
or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file
on your hard drive.
Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They
are the experts on it. They have even better versions with even clearer,
more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their
Web site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.
And you can contact them at: ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road,
Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7G 1A7. Phone: 807-474-7702
Tips for using/enjoying the texts on this CD:
The easiest way to get started is to click on My Computer, then on your
CD drive, then on index.html. (That should bring you to here, in Word or
your Web browser, or WordPad or Notepad, depending on your computer's setup.)
From the index, click on an individual work to see the full text in
your browser or in Word. Click "Back" in your browser to return here.
Use the "find" function in your browser (under Edit/Find in both Netscape
and IE) to find any word or phrase within a document.
When you stop reading, jot down the last phrase (a unique set of words)
so you can search for that the next time you want to read and easily find
the spot where you left off.
If you just want to read and if you have a large screen, use your browser
and under View increase the type size to meet your taste.
If you just want to read and you have a small screen, try using WordPad
or Word.
If you want to take notes while you read, first save the file on your
hard drive, then open it in WordPad or Word, enter your notes with the
text (making them distinctive with bold or italic or by enclosing them
in brackets] as you go along, and save the entire file, with those changes,
when you are done.
If you use Word, you can Select All [under Edit], and modify the font
and type size (to make the letters larger and easier to read) [under Format
and Font], and save the files on your hard drive [under File, Save As]
with whatever changes you have made (including notes you made while reading).
Note regarding copyright: On our "Classic Collections"
CDs, we include works published in the US before 1923, works from Australia
and Canada when the author died 50 years or more ago, and works from the
European Union (including the United Kingdom and Ireland) when the author
died 70 years or more ago. NB -- Due to The European Union's extension
of copyright by 20 years to 70 years after the death of the author many
works which had been in the public domain under the previous law are now
once again under copyright. Hence we are unable to include on our CDs some
popular writers whose works are still readily available over the Internet.
This site is published by B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West
Roxbury, MA 02132-002. 617-469-2269 seltzer@samizdat.com
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