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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Twelve Years A Slave
Twelve Years a Slave is a memoir by Solomon Northup, a black man who was born free in New York. The ..
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is book everyone in America should read, a fundamental w..
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Up from Slavery
In his 1901 autobiography, Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington chronicles his personal experiences..
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the first and most popular of three memoirs Frederick..
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was one of the first books in the slave narrative genre that s..
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave reminds us that slavery at one time existed throu..
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
As owner and reporter for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight Ida B. Wells investigated numerous a..
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT: Be it remembered, That on this tenth day of November, Anno Domini, e..
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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638 - 1870
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade is a fundamental work of African-American history that is..
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