Renaissance works

Philosophy · 11

• The Praise of Folly — Desiderius Erasmus, 1511 · trans. John Wilson
• Utopia — Thomas More, 1516 · trans. Gilbert Burnet
• The Colloquies — Desiderius Erasmus, 1518 · trans. N. Bailey
• The Book of the Courtier — Baldassarre Castiglione, 1528 · trans. Leonard Eckstein Opdycke
• Discourses on Livy — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531 · trans. Ninian Hill Thomson
• The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532 · trans. W. K. Marriott
• Institutes of the Christian Religion — John Calvin, 1536 · trans. John Allen
• Essays — Michel de Montaigne, 1580 · trans. Charles Cotton
• Novum Organum — Francis Bacon, 1620
• The Essays — Francis Bacon, 1625
• Florentine Histories — Niccolò Machiavelli · trans. C. E. Detmold

Fiction · 2

• Gargantua and Pantagruel — François Rabelais, 1534 · trans. Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux
• The New Atlantis — Francis Bacon, 1627

Drama · 31

• Henry VI, Part 1 — William Shakespeare, 1591
• Henry VI, Part 2 — William Shakespeare, 1591
• Henry VI, Part 3 — William Shakespeare, 1591
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona — William Shakespeare, 1591
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus — Christopher Marlowe, c. 1592
• Richard III — William Shakespeare, 1593
• The Taming of the Shrew — William Shakespeare, 1593
• The Comedy of Errors — William Shakespeare, 1594
• Richard II — William Shakespeare, 1595
• A Midsummer Night's Dream — William Shakespeare, 1596
• King John — William Shakespeare, 1596
• Henry IV, Part 1 — William Shakespeare, 1597
• Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare, 1597
• The Merry Wives of Windsor — William Shakespeare, 1597
• Love's Labour's Lost — William Shakespeare, 1598
• The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare, 1598
• As You Like It — William Shakespeare, 1599
• Henry V — William Shakespeare, 1599
• Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare, 1599
• Much Ado about Nothing — William Shakespeare, 1599
• Henry IV, Part 2 — William Shakespeare, 1600
• Troilus and Cressida — William Shakespeare, 1602
• Twelfth Night — William Shakespeare, 1602
• Measure for Measure — William Shakespeare, 1604
• All's Well That Ends Well — William Shakespeare, 1605
• Timon of Athens — William Shakespeare, 1606
• Antony and Cleopatra — William Shakespeare, 1607
• Coriolanus — William Shakespeare, 1608
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre — William Shakespeare, 1608
• Cymbeline — William Shakespeare, 1610
• The Winter's Tale — William Shakespeare, 1611

Poetry · 7

• The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1400 · trans. D. Laing Purves (ed.)
• Orlando Furioso — Ludovico Ariosto, 1532 · trans. William Stewart Rose
• Jerusalem Delivered — Torquato Tasso, 1581 · trans. Edward Fairfax
• The Faerie Queene — Edmund Spenser, 1590
• Venus and Adonis — William Shakespeare, 1593
• The Rape of Lucrece — William Shakespeare, 1594
• The Shepheardes Calender — Edmund Spenser

History · 1

• A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies — Bartolomé de las Casas, 1552

Authors · 15

Baldassarre Castiglione · Bartolomé de las Casas · Christopher Marlowe · Desiderius Erasmus · Edmund Spenser · Francis Bacon · François Rabelais · Geoffrey Chaucer · John Calvin · Ludovico Ariosto · Michel de Montaigne · Niccolò Machiavelli · Thomas More · Torquato Tasso · William Shakespeare