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The Tempest

William Shakespeare

1778 ★ 3.9

King Lear

William Shakespeare

1619 ★ 4.0

George Herbert and the seventeenth-century religious poets

George Herbert

1978

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800

Lynn M. Zott

2002

Women novelists and the ethics of desire, 1684-1814

Elizabeth Kraft

2008

Sodomy and interpretation

Gregory W. Bredbeck

1991

English Renaissance Poetry

John Williams

1963

Sir John Vanbrugh

Kerry Downes

1987

No island is an island

Carlo Ginzburg

2000

Shakespeare

Anthony Burgess

1970

The country-house ethos in English literature, 1688-1750

Virginia C. Kenny

1984

Chivalry in English literature

William Henry Schofield

1912

Literature and the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England

Michael Martin

2014

The Metaphysicals and Milton

E. M. W. Tillyard

1956

Shakespeare-lexicon

Schmidt, Alexander

1874

DLB 170: British Literary Book Trade, 1475-1700 (Dictionary of Literary Biography)

Joel Silver, James K. Bracken

1996

Shakespeare's restless world

Neil MacGregor

2013

Women and the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, 1640-1660

Marcus Andrew Nevitt

2006

Literature Criticism From 1400 To 1800

Linda Pavlovski

2005

The Habsburg chancery language in perspective

Elaine C. Tennant

1985

A reader's guide to the metaphysical poets

George Williamson

1967

Early modern women's writing

Paul Salzman

2000

Milton and the sons of God

Hugh MacCallum

1986

Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England

Megan Matchinske

1998

Shakespeare's language

Frank Kermode

2001

John Donne and the Line of Wit

Paul G. Stanwood

2009

Think On My Words

David Crystal

2008

Heart-work

Cristina Malcolmson

1999

Poems

George Herbert

1885

The development of the sonnet

Michael R. G. Spiller

1992

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