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52 Cards in this Set
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Caedmon
(first English poet known by name |
Hymns
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Anonymous
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Beowulf
(great Anglo-Saxon epic) |
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Bede the Venerable
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Ecclesiastical History
(first history of English people) |
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
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History of the Kings of Britain
(first elaborate account of King Arthur's court) |
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Book of the Duchess
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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House of Fame
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Troilus and Criseyde
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Legend of Good Women
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Canterbury Tales
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Sir Thomas Malory
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Le Morte Darthur
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Sir Thomas More
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Utopia
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Ralph Holinshed
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Chronicles
(basis of many of Shakespeare's plays) |
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Edmund Spenser
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The Shepheardes Calendar
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Defense of Poesie
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Thomas Kyd
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The Spanish Tragedy
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Christopher Marlowe
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Tamburlaine
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Christopher Marlowe
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Dr. Faustus
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Arcadia
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Edmund Spenser
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The Faerie Queen
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Astrophil and Stella
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Shakespeare
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The Comedy of Errors
(first play) |
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Shakespeare
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Richard III
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Shakespeare
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Venus and Adonis
(long narrative poem) |
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Shakespeare
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Rape of Lucrece
(long narrative poem) |
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Shakespeare
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Shakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet
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Shakespeare
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Merchant of Venice
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Shakespeare
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Falstaff plays
Henry IV Henry V Merry Wives of Windsor |
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Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar
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Shakespeare
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joyous comedies
Much Ado about Nothing As You Like It Twelfth Night |
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Shakespeare
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Hamlet
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Shakespeare
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bitter comedies
Troilus and Cressida All's Well that Ends Well Measure for Measure |
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Shakespeare
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Othello
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Shakespeare
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Macbeth
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Shakespeare
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King Lear
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Shakespeare
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Shakespeare
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tragi-comedies
Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Tempest |
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Edmund Spenser
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Amoretti
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Sir Francis Bacon
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Essays
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Ben Jonson
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Everyman in His Humour
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Ben Jonson
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Volpone
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Ben Jonson
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Alchemist
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John Milton
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Ode on the Morning
of Christ's Nativity |
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John Milton
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On Shakespeare
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John Milton
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L'Allegro and Il Penseroso
(companion poems) |
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John Milton
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Lycidas
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John Milton
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Defence of the English People
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Thomas Hobbes
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Leviathan
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Izaak Walton
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The Compleat Angler
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Richard Lovelace
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Lucasta
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John Knox
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First Blast of the
Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women |
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Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh)
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Discovery of Guiana
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