BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY PART – II/XXII

BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY

PART – II/XXII

CHRONOLOGY OF LITERARY WORKS

c.720 Lindisfarne Gospels

731 Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People

992 Aelfric, Catholic Homilies

C 1000 The four major surviving manuscripts of Anglo-saxon poetry: Vercelli,Exeter, Caedmon and Beowulf Mss

c.1138 Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain

1184-86 Andreas Capellanus, De amore

c.1188 Gervase, History of Canterbury

c.1200 The Owl and the Nightingale; Lazamon, Brut, Jocelin of Brakelond,

Chronicle

c.1220 Ancrene Riwle

c.1225 King Horn

c.1275 Guillaume de Lorris, Romans de la rose

c.1370 Chaucer, Book of the Duchess

c.1377 Langland, Piers Plowman (B Text)

1385 Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

c.1387 Chaucer begins work on The Canterbury Tales

1390 Gower, Confessio Amantis

c. 1400 Sole surviving manuscript of Sir Gawain, Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience

1431-8 Lydgate, The Fall of Princes

1435 James Stewart, The King's Quair

1473-74 Caxton, History of Troy, the first book printed in English

1485 Malory, Morte D'Arthur

1500 Skelton, Bouge of court, Erasmus, Adagia

c.1504 Skelton, Philip Sparrow

1513 Skelton, Ballad of Scottish King; Douglas; Translation of Aeneid;

Machiavelli, II Principe (The Prince')

1516 More, Utopia; Skelton, Magnificence

1519 Erasmus, Moriae encomium ('Praise of folly')

1523 Skelton, Garlande of Laurell

1531 Elyot, Boke named the Governour

1537 Crammer, Institution of a Christian Man

1547 Cranmer, Bonner Grindal etc., Certain Sermons or Homilies

1549 Book of Common Prayer

1557 Tottel's edition of Songs and Sonnets Tottel's Miscellany

Surrey's translation of Aeneid II and IV; North, Dial of princes

1559 Mirror for Magistrates

1560 'Geneva' Bible

1561 Hoby's translation of Castiglione's, Book of the Courtyer, Norton's

translation of Calvin, Institution

1563 Foxe, Actes and Monuments

1568 Bishop's Bible

1570 Ascham, The Scholemaster

1577 Sidney, 'Old' Arcadia (1577-80); Holinshed, Chronicles

1578 Lyly, Euphues or the Anatomy of wit

1579 Spenser, Shepherds'Calender, North, Plutarch's Lives

1581 Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (1581-83), Defence of Poesie (c1582),

'New' Arcadia (Three books, uncompleted c. 1584)

1587 Camden, Britannia

1588-92 Shakespeare's early plays including 1, 2, 3 Henry VI, Taming of the

Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Love's Labours Lost, Richard III

1589 Puttenham, Arte of English Poesie

1590 Spenser, Faerie Queene (I-III); Sidney, New Arcadia; Lodge, Rosalynde

1592 Daniel, Delia and The Complaint of Rosamund, Ralegh, Ocean to

Scinthia; Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy

1593 Marlowe; Hero and Leander, Shakespeare; Venus and Adonis; Drayton,

Idea the Shepherd's Garland; Hooker, Law of Ecclesiastical Polity (l-IV)

1594 Shakespeare, Sonnets (composed); Nashe, Unfortunate Traveller

1594-1600 Shakespeare, plays including Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, 1, 2 Henry IV, As You Like It, Merry Wives of Windsor, Julius

Caesar

1595 Daniel, Civil Wars (l-IV); Spenser, Amoretti, Epithalamion

1596 Spenser, Faerie Queene (enlarged to six books), Prothalamion; Davies;

Orchestra

1597 Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles; Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical

Polity, V; Bacon's Essays

1598 Chapman & Marlowe, Hero and Leander, Styow, Survey of London

1599 Daniel, Poetical Essays (including Musophilus); Nashe, Lenten Stuffe

1601 Shakespeare, plays including Hamlet; Twelfth Night; All's Well That Ends Well; Measure for Measure

1603 Jonson, Sejanus

1604 Shakespeare, plays including Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus

1605 Bacon, Advancement of Learning

1608-13 Shakespeare, plays including Cymbeline, Winter's Tale, Tempest, Henry VIII

1611 'Authorised' version of Bible

c.1613 Webster, The White Devil

1616 Ben Jonson, Works

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