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| 1509 | The Ship of Fools | Alexander Barclay | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1516 | Orlando Furioso | Ludovico Ariosto | Italy | Poetry | |||||||
| Utopia | Thomas More | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1517 | The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng | John Skelton | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1528 | The Book of the Courtier | Baldasarre Castiglione | Italy | Dialogue | |||||||
| 1532 | Pantagruel | Francois Rabelais | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1534 | Gargantua | Francois Rabelais | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1558 | Heptaméron | Marguerite de Navarre | France | Stories | |||||||
| 1572 | The Lusiads | Luis de Camoëns | Portugal | Poetry | |||||||
| 1575 | Jerusalem Delivered | Torquato Tasso | Italy | Poetry | |||||||
| 1580-81 | Arcadia | Philip Sidney | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1586 | The Spanish Tragedy | Thomas Kyd | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1587 | Tamburlaine the Great | Christopher Marlowe | England | Drama | |||||||
| Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe | England | Drama | ||||||||
| Oroonoko | Aphra Behn | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1589 | The Faerie Queen | Edmund Spenser | England | Poetry | |||||||
| c.1590 | The Golden Lotus | Anonymous | China | Novel | |||||||
| c.1590-99 | Satires | John Donne | England | Poetry | |||||||
| Elegies | John Donne | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1591 | Astrophel and Stella | Philip Sidney | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1592 | Edward II | Christopher Marlowe | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1594 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| c.1596 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| c.1597 | The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| Henry IV, Part 1 | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | ||||||||
| 1598 | The Peony Pavilion | Tang Xianzu | China | Drama | |||||||
| 1599 | The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | Christopher Marlowe | England | Poem | |||||||
| Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | ||||||||
| 1601 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1603 | A Woman Killed with Kindness | Thomas Heywood | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1604 | Othello | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1604-05 | The Honest Whore | Thomas Dekker | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1605-15 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Spain | Novel | |||||||
| 1606 | Volpone | Ben Jonson | England | Drama | |||||||
| c.1606 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | ||||||||
| c.1608 | The Faithful Shepherdess | John Fletcher | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1609 | Sonnets | William Shakespeare | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1610 | The Alchemist | Ben Jonson | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1611 | The Tempest | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1613 | The Duchess of Malfi | John Webster | England | Drama | |||||||
| c.1614 | The Sheep Well | Lope de Vega | Spain | Drama | |||||||
| 1632 | Dorothy | Lope de Vega | Spain | Poetry | |||||||
| 1633 | ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore | John Ford | England | Drama | |||||||
| The Temple | George Herbert | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1635 | Life is a Dream | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | Spain | Drama | |||||||
| 1637 | Le Cid | Pierre Corneille | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1643 | The Mayor of Zalamea | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | Spain | Drama | |||||||
| 1648 | Hesperides | Robert Herrick | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1662 | The School for Wives | Molière | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1664 | Tartuffe | Molière | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1666 | The Misanthrope | Molière | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1667 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | England | Poetry | |||||||
| Andromache | Jean Racine | France | Drama | ||||||||
| 1668-94 | Fables | Jean de La Fontaine | France | Poetry | |||||||
| 1670 | The Bourgeois Gentleman | Molière | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1671 | Paradise Regained | John Milton | England | Poetry | |||||||
| Samson Agonistes | John Milton | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1675 | The Country Wife | William Wycherley | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1676 | The Plain Dealer | William Wycherley | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1677 | All for Love | John Dryden | England | Poetry | |||||||
| Phaedra | Jean Racine | France | Drama | ||||||||
| 1678 | The Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1681 | To His Coy Mistress | Andrew Marvell | England | Poem | |||||||
| Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1682 | The Life of an Amorous Man | Ihara Saikaku | Japan | Novel | |||||||
| 1692 | Dream | Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz | Mexico | Poem | |||||||
| 1699 | The Adventures of Telemachus | François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1700 | The Way of the World | William Congreve | England | Drama | |||||||
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