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60 Cards in this Set
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hero defeats monster and mother, is later killed by dragon |
Beowulf
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Dream of the Road, Christ, Exeter Book
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Cynewulf
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translated Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
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Alfred
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The Doomsday Book (comisioned by...)
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William the Conquerer
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Piers Plowman
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William Langland
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poet dreams in Malvern Hills about tower of Truth and
dungeon of Wrong; Holy Church explains visions |
Piers Plowman
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Troilus and Criseyde
House of Fame The Legend of Good Women The Book of the Duchess |
Geoffery Chaucer
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The Parliment of Fowles
Canterburry Tales |
Geoffery Chaucer
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Pandarus helps two title characers get together, Cassandra predicts woman will be unfaithful and is right
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Troilus and Criseyde
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20 women who suffered and died for love
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The Legend of Good Women
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elegy on death of John of Gaunt's wife Blanche of Lancaster
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The Book of the Duchess
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Scipio Africanus appears to younger Scipio in dream; on
Valentine's Day 3 titular animals fight over formel eagle |
The Parliment of Fowles
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schoolboy sings hymn about Mary in Jewish ghetto and has throat cut
but is saved by Mary, who commands him to sing until a grain is removed from his tongue |
The Prioress's Tale (Canterbury Tales)
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Summoner and Devil swear friendship
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The Friar's Tale
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Theseus defeats Creon at Thebes; Arcite dies after winning tournament
for the hand of Hippolyta's sister Emily and his cousin Palamon marries her |
The Knight's Tale
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Titular man forgives 3 enemies who beat his wife Prudence and killed his daughter Sophie
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Melibee's Tale
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carpenter John's wife Alison scorns Absolon but loves Nicholas, who convinces John to suspend three tubs in the attic in preparation for a second
Flood; Absolon brands Nicholas's rump |
Miller's Tale
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mom of Sultan of Syria puts Constance adrift; washed ashore in Northumberland and marries King Alla],
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Man of Law's Tale
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used tricks to keep first 4 husbands in hand; married 5th for love, but after a fight he let her run everything; foul witch tells Arthur's knight what women most desire is sovereignty over husbands and makes him marry her; he gives her choice of beauty or fidelity and gets both
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Wife of Bath's Tale
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Virginia killed by judge father, whom Apius condemns to hanging but people revolt and the judge commits suicide
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Physician's Tale
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3 revelers want to slay Death, who killed their friend with plague; find treasure under tree; stab and poison each other over the gold
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Pardoner's Tale
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fox Don Russell seizes rooster Chauntecleer, as he had dreamed, but had been mocked by wife Pertelote
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Nun's Preist's Tale
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description of Confession, 7 Deadly Sins, and Penitence; Chaucer's Retractions
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Parson's Tale
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Miller Simkin steals grain from scholars John and Alan, who spend the night at his house and sleep with his wife and daughter
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Reeve's Tale
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archer Phebus's white crow tells him his wife had affair; he kills her but then turns against the tattle-tale crow
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Maniciple's Tale
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knight January's sight restored but his wife May has affair with Damyan
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Merchant's Tale
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Marquis Walter marries Griselda and tests her loyalty
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Clerk's Tale
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first tales of King Arthur, written in the 15th century
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Le Morte de Arthur by Malory
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title character is challenged to behead another title character, which he does. The entire thing was planned by Morgan le Fay
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Title characer from Death; friends Fellowship, Worldly Goods, and Beauty leave him but Good Deeds remains faithful but weak; morality play
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Everyman
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possible based on the Earl of Huntington
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Robin Hood
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(Book I dialogue analyses ills in England; Book II describes a community run with humanist ideals
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Utopia
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Utopia
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Sir Thomas More
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A Garland of Laurel, Philip Sparrow, Colin Clout
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John Skeleton
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Astrophel and Stella
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Faerie Queene
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Edmund Spencer
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(planned 12 books for each private moral virtues; Prince Arthur sees vision of Gloriana [Elizabeth I]; evil Catholics Duessa [Mary], Archimago, and Grantorto [Philip II]; 6 books: Red Cross Knight [Holiness], Sir Guyon [Temperance], Britomart [Chastity], Cambel and Triamond [Friendship], Artegal [Justice], Calidore [Courtesy]
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The Faerie Queen
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The Anniversaries, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
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John Donne
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An Anatomy of the World, Of the Progresse of the Soule; in
memory of Robert Drury's daughter Elizabeth |
The Anniversaries
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Poetical Blossoms, Davideis
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Abraham Cowley
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The Temple
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George Herbert
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Raphael tells Adam about Satan's revolt and expulsion; Satans as serpent tempts Eve to eat forbidden fruit and Adam does also; Sin and Death enter world; Michael leads them out of Garden of Eden
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Paradise Lost
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Jesus resists Satan's temptations; suggested by Quaker Thomas Ellwood
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Paradise Regained
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title character betrayed by Delilah, blinded by Philistines, and destroys temple
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Samson Agonistes
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commemorates death of schoolmate Edward King; title from shepherd in Bucolic
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Lycidas
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pamphlet against restriction of freedom of the press
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Areopagitica
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young lady left by two brothers in the woods captured by Comus, god of sensual pleasure
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Comus
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Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Lycidas, Areopagitica, Comus
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John Milton
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Spanish marshal Hieronimo's son Horatio, who loves Bel-
Imperia, is slain by her brother Lorenzo and the prince of Portugal; Hieronimo finds his body hanging in the arbor; Hieronimo and Bel Imperia kill villains while performing a play and Hieronimo kills self; 9 die on stage |
Spanish Tragedy
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Spanish Tragedy
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Thomas Kyd
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Scythian shepherd becomes Persian king and marries Soldan's daughter Zenocrate
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Tamburlaine
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scholar sells soul to devil
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Faustus
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Barabas looses fortune and wants revenge on invading Turks; murders daughter and whole nunnery with poisoned porridge; dies in bubbling cauldron
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Jew of Malta
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Tamburlaine, Faustus, Jew of Malta
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Chrisopher Marlowe
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Marlowe, Robert Greene, John Lyly, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Lodge, George Peele
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University Wits
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France: Helena cures French king and chooses to marry Bertram, she tricks him to gain his ring and bear his child
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All's Well That Ends Well
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Rosalind disguises herself as boy Ganymede and meets Orlando, who is reconciled to his brother Oliver by saving his life; Duke Frederick becomes a monk and four couples are united at feast of Hymen; clown Touchstone woos Audrey
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As You Like It
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Aemilia and Aegeon have twins, both named Antipholus, and both with slaves Dromio; one goes to Syracuse and one to Ephesus but eventually reunited after much confusion
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Comedy of Errors
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Britain: King Cymbeline banishes Posthumous Leonatus who married his daughter Imogen; in Rome Iachimo bets Imogen will be unfaithful and steals her bracelet; servant Pisanio allows Imogen to escape dressed as a boy; Iachimo's villany exposed
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Cymbeline
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4 men vow to eschew women for 3 years but fall in love; King Ferdinand of Navarre with French princess, Biron with Rosaline, Longaville with Maria, and Dumain with Katherine; others include Don Armado, clown Costard, and constable Dull
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Love's Labours Lost
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