Books Chronolgy

Chronology of English Literature

William Shakespeare (1564 1615):
“Venus and Adonis” (1593)

“The Rape of Lucrece” (1594) 

“Sonnets” (1609) 

“The Comedy of Errors” (1592) 

“The Taming of the Shrew” (1593) 

“The Two Gentlemen of Verona” (1594)

“Love’s Labour’s Lost” (1594)

“Richard II” (1595)

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1595)

“Romeo and Juliet” (1595)

“The Merchant of Venice” (1596)

“Henry IV” (1597) 

“Much Ado About Nothing” (1599) 

“As You Like It” (1599) 

“The Merry Wives of Windsor” (1599)

“Julius Caesar” (1599)

“Twelfth Night” (1600) 

“Hamlet” (1601)

“Troilus and Cressida” (1602)

“All’s Well That Ends Well” (1602)

“Measure for Measure” (1604) 

“Othello” (1604)

“King Lear” (1605)

“Antony and Cleopatra” (1606)

“Macbeth” (1606)

“Coriolanus” (1608)

“Timon of Athens” (1608)

 “Cymbeline” (1610)

“The Winter’s Tale” (1610)

“The Tempest” (1611)

Thomas Nashe (1567)
“The Unfortunate Traveller” (1594)

“Pierce Penniless” (1592)

“Summer’s Last Will and Testament” (1592)

John Davies (1569)
“Orchestra” (1596) 

“Nosce Teipsum” (1599)

Thomas Dekker (1570)
“Shoemaker’s Holiday” (1599)

“The Honest Whore” (1605)

“The Wonderful Yeare” (1603)

Thomas Middleton (1570): 
“A Chast Mayd in Cheapeside” (1611)

“A Trick to Catch the Old One” (1608)

“The Changeling” (1622) 

“Women Beware Women” (1627)

John Donne (1572):
“Songs and Sonnets” (1601)

“Elegies” (1601)

“An Anatomy of the World” (1611)

“Of the Progress of the Soul” (1612)

“Holy Sonnets” (1618)

“The Progresse of the Soule” (1601)

Ben Jonson (1572):
Every Man Out of His Humour” (1606) 

“Volpone” (1606)

“Epicene” (1609)

“The Alchemist (1610)

“Bartholomew Fair” (1614)

“The Forest” (1616)

Thomas Heywood (1574):
"A Woman Killed with Kindness” (1603)

“The Wise Woman of Hogsdon” (1604)

“The Fair Maid of the West” (1631)

“The English Traveller” (1633)

John Marston (1575):
“Dutch Courtezan” (1605)

“The Malcontent” (1604)

Robert Burton (1577):
“The Anatomy of Melancholy” (1621)

John Webster (1580) 
“The White Devil” (1612)

“The Dutchesse of Malfy” (1623)

Phineas Fletcher (1582):
“The Purple Island” (1633)

Philip Massinger (1583)
“The Roman Actor” (1626)

“New Way to Pay Old Debts” (1632)

“A City Madam” (1632) 

“The Picture” (1629) 

Francis Beaumont (1584)
“The Knight of Burning Pestle” (1607) 

“The Woman Hater” (1606)

Beaumont & Fletcher  “The Maides Tragedy” (1611)

Beaumont & Fletcher “The Coxcombe” (1610)

John Ford (1586)
“Love’s Sacrifice” (1630) 

“‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore” (1633) 

“The Broken Heart” (1633) 

James Shirley (1596)
“The Traytor” (1631) 

“The Cardinal” (1641) 

“The Lady of Pleasure” (1635) 

“St Patrick of Ireland” (1640)

Thomas Browne (1605)
 “Religio Medici” (1642)

John Milton (1608)
“Arcades” (1633)

“Comus” (1634) 

“Paradise Lost” (1667)

“Paradise Regained” (1671)

“Samson Agonistes” (1671)

Andrew Marvell (1621)
“The Garden” (1633)

“Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” (1659)

“A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure” (1681)

John Dryden (1631)
“Heroic Stanzas” (1659)

“The Rival Ladies” (1664) 

“The Indian Queen” (1664)

“Annus Mirabilis” (1667)

“The Conquest of Granada” (1670)

“Marriage A` la Mode” (1672)

“All for Love” (1678) 

“Absalom and Achitophel” (1681)

“The Medall” (1682) 

“MacFlecknoe” (1682)

“Religio Laici” (1682) 

“The Hind and the Panther” (1687)

“A Song for Saint Cecilia’s Day” (1687)

“Alexander’s Feast” (1697)

George Etherege (1634)
“She Wou’d If She Cou’d” (1668)

“Man Of Mode” (1676) 

William Wycherley (1640)
“Plain Dealer” (1673)

“The Country Wife” (1675)

Afra Behn (1640)
 “Oroonoko” (1688)

“Abdelazar” (1677)

Daniel DeFoe (1660):
“Robinson Crusoe” (1719)

“Moll Flanders” (1722)

“Roxana” (1724)

Jonathan Swift (1667)
“Tale of a Tub” (1704)

“Gulliver’s Travels” (1726) 

“A Modest Proposal” (1729)

“On the Death of Dr Swift” (1731)

William Congreve (1670)
“The Way of the World” (1700)

“Old Bachelor” (1693)

“Double Leader” (1694)

 “Love for Love” (1695)

John Gay (1685)
“The Beggar’s Opera”" (1728) 

“Shepherd’s Week”" (1714)

“Trivia”" (1715)

Alexander Pope (1688):
 “The Rape of the Lock” (1714)

“The Dunciad” (1743) 

“Epistles to Arbuthnot” (1735)

“Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady” (1717)

“Eloisa to Abelard” (1717)

“Imitations of Horace” (1738)

“An Essay on Man” (1734) 

Samuel Richardson (1689)
 “Pamela” (1740)

“Clarissa” (1747)

Henry Fielding (Britain, 1707):
"Joseph Andrews” (1742)

“Jonathan Wild” (1743)

“Tom Jones” (1749)

“Amelia” (1751)

Samuel Johnson (1709)
 “Rasselas” (1759)

“The Vanity of Human Wishes” (1749)

 “The Lives of the English Poets” (1783)