Found 4,577 results for "Early works to 1600"
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing and the Romantic Comedies Shakespeare's three great romantic comedies, so widely studied and perf...
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...
Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu
He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, (1) saith the Lord.
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences
The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
texts read sith or apricocks or porpentine, we have not modernized to since, apricots, porcupine.
Os Lusíadas
by Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho
Arms are my theme, and those matchless heroes
The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
When it first became known to Europe that a new continent had been discovered, the wise men, philosophers, and especiall...
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Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori
by Giorgio Vasari, Peter Murray
HAVING discussed drawing and painting in the life of Cimabue, and architecture in that of Arnolfo di Lapo, in this life ...
Cymbeline
by William Shakespeare
In the scene which dramatizes the central crisis of her fortunes, the heroine of Cymbeline apparently dies, and her brot...