BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY PART – III/XXII

BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY

PART – III/XXII

IMPORTANT WRITERS AND THEIR WORKS

WRITERS WORKS

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)

The Romaunt of the Roses

The Book of the Duchess (1369)

Anelida and Arcite

The Parliament of Fouls

Troilus and Criseyde

The House of Fame (incomplete)

The Legend of Good Women

The Canterbury Tales

William Langland (c. 1330-c. 1386) The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman

A Treatise on the Astrolabe

John Barbour (c. 1320-95) Bruce (375)

John Gower (1330-1408) Speclum Meditantis (c. 1376-78)

Vox Calmantis (c. 1374-81)

Confessio Amantis

James I (1394-1437) The King is Quair

Peblis to the Play

Christis Kirk on the Grene

Sir David Lyndsay (1490-1555) The Dreme (1528)

The Testament of' Squyer Meldrum

The Testaments and Compleyment of the Papyngo

The Pleasant Satyre of Thrie Estaits

Robert Henryson (1429-1508) Morall Fabillis of Esope

The Testament of Cressied

Orphens and Eurydice

Robene and Makyne

Garmond of Gude Ladies

William Dunbar (1460-1530) Goldyn Targe

Thrissil and Rois

Dance of the Seven Deidlie Synnis

Lament for the Makaris

Gavin Douglas (1474-1522) The Palice of Honour King Hart, Conscience

John Skelton (1460-1529) Garland of Laurell

Why Come Ye nat to Court

Dirge on Edward IV

Magnificence

John Lydgate (1370-1451) The Falls of Princes

The Temple of Glass

Story of Thebes

London Lick penny

Thomas Occleve (1368-1450) Regement of Princes

La Mala Regle

The complaint of Our Lady

Occleve's Complaint

Stephen Hawes (1474-1530) The Passetyme of Pleasure

The Example of Virtue

The Conversion of Swesrrs

A Joyfull Medytacyon

Alexander Barclay (1475-1552) Ship of Fools

Certayne Ecloges

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) The Shepheards Calendar(1579)

The Ruins of Time

The Tears of the Muses

Mother Habberd's Tale

The Ruins of the Muses

Amoretti

Epithalamion

Prothalamion

A View of the Present State of Ireland (Prose)

The Faerie Queene

George Gascoigne (1525-77) The Steele Glass (1576)

Jocasta (1566)

Supposes(1566)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) Astrophel and Stella (1591)

Arcadia (1598)

Apologie for Poetrie (1595)

The Harmonie of the Church

John Donne(1573-1631) Of the Progress of the Soul (1601)

Songs and Sonnets

Aire and Angels

A Nocturnall Upon S Lucies Day

A Valediction: Forbidding

Mouming

The Extasie

The Pseudo-Martyr (1610)

Ignatius His Conclave (1611)

Devotions(1614)

Death's Duell(1630)

Robert Greene (1588-92) Alphonsus, King of Aragon (1587)

Frier Bacon and Frier Bongey (1589)

Orlando Furioso (1591)

The So High Historie of James the Fourth (1592)

Thomas Nash (1567-1601) Summer's Last Will and Testament (1592)

The Unfortunate Traveller, Or the Life of Jack Wilton (1594)

Thomas Lodge (1558-1625) The Wounds of Civile War

Rosalynde (1590)

Legacie (1590)

Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) Tamburlaine the Great (1587)

The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great (1588)

The Jew of malte (1589)

Edward II (1591)

Doctor Faustus (1592)

The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage (1593)

The Massacre at Paris (1593)-(Unfinished)

George Peele (1558-98) The Araygnement of Paris (1584)

The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First (1593)

The Old Wive's Tale (1594)

The Love of King David and Fair Bethasabe (1599)

Richard Lovelace (1618-58) Lucasta (1649)

To Althea From Prison'

'To Lucasta going to the Wars'

Sir John Suckling (1609-42) 'Ballad upon a Wedding'

Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Venus and Adonis (1593)

The Rape of Lucree (1594)

The Passionate Piligrim (1599)

Henry VI (1591-92)

Richard III (1593)

The Comedy of Errors (1593)

Titus Andronicus (1594)

The Taming of the Shrew (1594)

Love's Labour Lost (1594)

Romeo and Juliet (1594)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1595)

King John (1595)

Richard II(1596)

The Merchant of Venice (1596)

Henry IV (1597)

Much Ado About Nothing (1598)

Henry V (1599)

Julius Caesar(1599)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600)

As You Like If (1600)

Hamlet(1601)

Twelfth Night (1601)

Troilus And Cressyede (1602)

All's Well That Ends Well(1602)

Measure for Measure (1604)

Othello(1604)

Macbeth (1605)

King Lear (1605)

Antony and Cleopatra (1606)

Coriolanus (1606)

Timon of Athens (1607) - (Unfinished)

Pericles (1608)

Cymbeline(1609)

The Winter's Tale(1610)

The Tempest (1611)

Henry VIII (1613)

Thomas Kyd (1558-94) The Spanish Tragedie (1585)

Cornelia (1593)

Ben Jonson (1573-1637) Every Man in His Humour (1598)

Every Man out of His Humour (1599)

Cynthia's Revels (1600)

The Poetaster (1601)

Volpone, or the Fox (1605)

Epicaene, or the Silent Woman (1609)

The Alchemist(1610)

Bartholomew Fayre (1614)

The Devil is an Ass (1616)

The Staple of News (1625)

Sejanus his Fall (1603)

Catline his Conspiracy (1611)

The Masque of Beauty (1608)

The Masque of Queens (1609)

Oberon, The Fairy Prince (1611)

Under woods (lyrics)

John Webster (1578-1634) The White Devil (1612)

The Duchess of Malfi (1614)

Francis Beaumount (1584-1616) The Devil's Law Case (1623)

and John Fletcher (1579-1625) A Kind of No King (1611)

(Jointly wrote) The Night of the Burning Pestle (1607)

The Scronful Lady (1616)

The Maid's Tragedy (1610)

Philaster(1611)

The Faithful Shepherdess (By Fletcher alone)

George Chapman (1559-1634) The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596)

Busy d' Ambois (1604)

Charles' Duke of Byron (1608)

The Tragedy of Chabot (1613)

All Fools (1605)

Eastward Hoe (1605) (He also translated Homer)

Thomas Malorie (d. 1471) Morte de' Arthur

Reginald Peacock (1390-1461) The Repressor of Over-much Blaming of the

Clergy (1445)

The Book of Faith

William Caxton (1422-91) Recuyell of the Histories of Troye (1471)

Game and Playe of the Chesse (1475)

John Fisher (1459-1535) The Ways of Perfect Religion

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Utopia (1551) English Translation

The Life of John Picus

The Historie of Richard III

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