History of the English Language and Literature 1554-1586. Courtier; general; romance-writer. FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626.
Essays (1597); Advancement of Learning Hawkins begins slave trade 1560 (1605); Novum Organum (1620); and in 1562. other works on methods of inquiry into nature. Rizzio murdered, 1566.
Viscount St Albans; Lord High Chancellor of England; lawyer; philosopher; essayist. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Thirty-seven plays. His greatest tragedies are Hamlet, Lear, and Othello. His best comedies are Midsummer Nightâ——s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and As 1564-1616. You Like It. His best historical plays are Julius Cæsar and Richard III. Many minor Actor; owner of theatre; play-writer; poet. Born and poems— chiefly sonnets. He wrote died at Stratford-on-Avon. no prose. Tragedies and comedies. Best plays: BEN JONSON. Volpone or the Fox; Every Man in his Humour. 1574-1637. Dramatist; poet; prose-writer. WILLIAM DRUMMOND Sonnets and poems. (â——of Hawthorndenâ——).
Marlowe, Dekker, Chapman, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ford, Webster, Ben Johnson, and other dramatists, were contemporaries of Shakspeare. Drake sails round the world, 1577.
1570
Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, 1578. Raleigh in Virginia, 1584.
1580
Babingtonâ——s Plot, 1586.
1585-1649. Spanish Armada, 1588. Scottish poet; friend of Ben Jonson. THOMAS HOBBES. The Leviathan (1651), a work on politics Battle of Ivry, 1590. and moral philosophy. 1588-1679.
1590
Philosopher; prose-writer; translator of Homer. 372
Religio Medici (= â——The Religion of a Australia discovered, 1601. 1600 Physicianâ——); Urn-Burial; and other SIR THOMAS BROWNE. prose works. James I. ascends the throne in 1603. 1605-1682. Physician at Norwich. JOHN MILTON.
Minor Poems; Paradise Lost; Paradise Hampton Court Conference Regained; Samson Agonistes. Many prose for translation of Bible,
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