FAMOUS WRITER & THEIR WORK
1200-1500: Middle English Period
Geoffrey Chaucer's(1343-1400)
The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess.
Major Poem
1.The House of Fame,
2.The Parliament of Fowles,
3.The Legend of Good Women.
4.Prose Treatises Treatise on the astrolabe.
Short Poem
1.The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse ,
2.Gentilesse
3.Merciles Beaute
4.Lak of Stedfastnesse
5.Against Women Unconstant.
1500-1660: The English Renaissance 1500-1558: Tudor Period (Humanist Era)
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
Utopia, The History of King Richard the Third, The Life of Pico della Mirandola, The Four Last Things, A Dialogue Concerning Tyndale, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer, A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation and Sadness of Christ .
The Renaissance Period (1558-1603) The Elizabethan Age
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, The
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Winter's Tale
Histories: King John, Richard II, Henry IV, part 1, Henry IV, part 2, Henry V, Henry VI, part1, Henry
VI, part 2, Henry VI, part 3, Richard III,Henry VIII
Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth,
Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra.Poems: Shakespeare's
Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim, The Phoenix and the
Turtle, A Lover's Complaint.
