Renaissance
The Renaissance era followed the Medieval period and runs from 1500 – 1670.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
As Theseus, Duke of Athens, is arranging festivities to celebrate his wedding to Hippolyte, Queen of..
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Cyrano de Bergerac
The title character of Cyrano de Bergerac is a fictionalization of the basic facts life of a real pe..
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Don Quixote, the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of LaMancha, is a Spanish novel by Mig..
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Leviathan
The title of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan is drawn from the biblical figure of a gigantic sea monster, a..
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Martin Luther: Roots of the Reformation
This book collects four key works authored by Martin Luther that form the framework of the Reformati..
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Meditations on First Philosophy
The Meditations on First Philosophy, which carries the subtitle “In which the existence of God and t..
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Paradise Lost
The story of Adam and Eve, the original human couple in the book of Genesis, is the story of mankind..
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Pensees
In 1654, at the age of 31, Blaise Pascal had a religious experience that motivated him to turn his p..
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is the quintessential tragic romance and its title characters are the model for sta..
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Tartuffe
Tartuffe, or the Imposter, was first presented at the Versailles fetes in 1664 and was almost instan..
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The Bourgeois Gentleman
When Moliere wrote The Bourgeois Gentleman in 1670 and first performed the comedie-ballet at the cou..
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The Compleat Angler
“I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.”The Compleat Angler, or, the Contemplative Man’s Re..
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The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne
At the age of 38, Michel de Montaigne retired from a distinguished public career and withdrew to the..
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The Essays of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon thought of his Essays as “recreation of my other studies” in politics, law, natural ph..
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The Imaginary Invalid
The Imaginary Invalid,also known as The Hypochondriac, is a comedie-ballet in three acts produc..
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The Misanthrope
Alceste, the title character of The Misanthrope, has little use for mankind, including himself, reje..
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The Miser
Harpagon, the title character of The Miser, is consumed byall aspects of his wealth. He makes money ..
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The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli broke the mold when he wrote The Prince, an ostensibly traditional work in the s..
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The School for Wives
Arnolphe, the protagonist of The School for Wives, isso intimidated by women that he resolves to rai..
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The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate..." These lines f..
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The Tempest
Neither tragedy nor comedy, but a romance, The Tempest (1610-11) is believed to be the last play wri..
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually referred to as Hamlet, is a tragedy by Willi..
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The Tragedy of King Lear
The Tragedy of King Lear depicts the descent of the title character into madness after retiring from..
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth dramatizes the consequences of the naked lust for power and political positio..
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The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which articulated the rights of citizens..
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The Awakening
The Awakening is one of the first American novels that focused on women’s issues and is now seen as ..
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The Business of Being a Woman
From the author's introduction..."The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain..
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The Subjection of Women
In his essay “On the Subjection of Women” John Stuart Mill wrote at length about the moral, legal an..
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is a groundbreaking feminist trea..
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Published in 1845, Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in th..
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