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 Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows began as a series of bedtime stories author Kenneth Grahame invented for his..
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
The image is popular and general: A young man sits under an apple tree. An apple falls, strikes him ..
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A Doll's House
A Doll’s House aroused a great deal of controversy when it premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenha..
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An Enemy of the People
The term “enemy of the people” has entered our modern lexicon, thanks to the unprecedented attacks o..
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Metamorphoses defies easy classification: it is a Latin narrative poem written in an epic style ..
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A Shropshire Lad
The sixty-three short poems that constitute A Shropshire Lad conjure a pastoral countryside that is ..
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Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
During the economic and social upheaval of the 1870’s and 1880’s the notion of a better social order..
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Robert Frost: Early Poems
Robert Frost: Early Poems combines the first two of Robert Frost’s published volumes. A Boy’s Will i..
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A Boy's Will
A Boy’s Will is the first book of poems by Frost, published in 1913 when he was in his late thirties..
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North of Boston
North of Boston was Frost’s second book, a collection of seventeen poems published in 1914. It ..
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost first published in 1923 by Henry Holt. It con..
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The Kama Sutra
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Hindu text considered by many as the first and perhaps still the best w..
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The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nafzaoui is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic l..
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds,also known as Bird Parliament or Speech of the Birds, is a masterpiece o..
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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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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title of a translation by Englishman Edward FitzGerald of poems ..
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