Seventeenth Century

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

LITERATURE

Antoine de Montchrétien, Cleomenes (1601).
Jakob Bidermann, Cenodoxus (1602).
 Alexandre Hardy, Dido Sacrificing Herself (1603).
 Mateo Alemán, The Life of Guzman de Alfarache (1604).
 William Shakespeare, King Lear (1605).
 George Chapman, Monsieur D’Olive (1606).
 Thomas Middleton, Your Five Gallants (1607).
 Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece (1608).
 Mathurin Régnier, Satires (1609).
 François Béroalde de Verville, The Journey of the Fortunate Princes (1610).
 François de Malherbe, Ode to the Queen (1611).
 John Webster, The White Devil (1612).
 Francis Beaumont, The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn (1613).
 Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair (1614).
 Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1615).
 Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné, The Tragic Fates (1616).
 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Warenar (1617).
 Guillén de Castro, The Youth of the Cid (1618).
 Honoré d’Urfé, Astrea (1619).
 Giambattista Marino, The Gallery (1620).
 John Fletcher, The Wild Goose Chase (1621).
 Alessandro Tassoni, The Rape of the Pail (1622).
 Théophile de Viau, The Tragic Loves of Pyramus and Thisbe (1623).
 Martin Opitz, Poems (1624).
 Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, The Privileged Breasts (1625).
 Francisco de Quevedo, Pablo of Segovia (1626).
 Luis de Góngora, Poems (1627).
 John Ford, The Lover’s Melancholy (1628).
 Philip Massinger, The Picture (1629).
 Tirso de Molina, The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest (1630).
 John Donne, Poems (1631).
 Lope de Vega, Dorothea (1632).
 Charles Sorel, The Comical History of Francion (1633).
 Jean Mairet, Sophonisba (1634).
 Juan Pérez de Montalbán, The Gypsy Woman of Memphis (1635).
 Georges de Scudéry, The Death of Caesar (1636).
 Pierre Corneille, The Cid (1637).
 Antonio Mira de Amescua, Obligations Against One’s Blood (1638).
 Pedro Calderón de La Barca, There Is Nothing Like Silence (1639).
 Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, None Beneath the King (1640).
 Luis Vélez de Guevara, The Lame Devil (1641).
 Pierre Du Ryer, Saul (1642).
 Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Europa (1643).
 Tristan L’Hermite, The Death of Seneca (1644).
 La Calprenède, Cassandra (1645).
 Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1646).
 Jean de Rotrou, Wenceslaus (1647).
 Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648).
 William Davenant, Love and Honour (1649).
 Charles Coypeau d’Assoucy, Ovid in Good Humour (1650).
 Zrínyi Miklós, The Siege of Sziget (1651).
 Agustín Moreto, Saint Franco of Sena (1652).
 Paul Scarron, Don Japhet of Armenia (1653).
 Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, The Pedant Tricked (1654).
 Henry Vaughan, Silex Scintillans (1655).
 Georges de Brébeuf, Parody of Lucan (1656).
 Li Yu, The Carnal Prayer Mat (1657).
 Georg Stiernhielm, Hercules (1658).
 Joost van den Vondel, Jephthah (1659).
 Andreas Gryphius, The Beloved Rose with a Thorn (1660).
 ♀ Mademoiselle de Scudéry, Celinta (1661).
 ♀ Madame de La Fayette, The Princess of Montpensier (1662).
 Samuel Butler, Hudibras (1663).
 Thomas Killigrew, Thomaso (1664).
 Francisco Manuel de Melo, The Would-Be Noble (1665).
 Antoine Furetière, The City Romance (1666).
 John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667).
 Molière, The Miser (1668).
 Hans von Grimmelshausen, Simplicius Simplicissimus (1669).
 Jean Racine, Berenice (1670).
 Jean de La Fontaine, Tales (1671).
 Thomas Shadwell, Epsom Wells (1672).
 Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, Letters of Heroes (1673).
 ♀ Madame de Villedieu, Memoirs of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière (1674).
 William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675).
 George Etherege, The Man of Mode (1676).
 John Dryden, All for Love (1677).
 Thomas Corneille, The Earl of Essex (1678).
 Pu Songling, Strange Stories (1679).
 Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, Sophonisba (1680).
 ♀ Aphra Behn, The False Count (1681).
 Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved (1682).
 Nicolas Boileau, The Lectern (1683).
 John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress (1684).
 Philippe Quinault, Roland (1685).
 Saikaku Ihara, The Life of an Amorous Woman (1686).
 Charles Sedley, Bellamira (1687).
 Hong Sheng, The Palace of Eternal Life (1688).
 Heinrich von Ziegler, The Asian Banise (1689).
 ♀ Catherine Bernard, Brutus (1690).
 Dancourt, The Parisian Girl (1691).
 ♀ Juana Inés de la Cruz, First Dream (1692).
 William Congreve, The Old Bachelor (1693).
 Bashō Matsuo, Haikai (1694).
 Thomas Southerne, Oroonoko (1695).
 John Vanbrugh, The Relapse (1696).
 Charles Perrault, Tales (1697).
 ♀ Madame d’Aulnoy, Tales (1698).
 François de Fénelon, The Adventures of Telemachus (1699).
 Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras, Memoirs of Monsieur d’Artagnan (1700).

APPENDIX

 Cyril Tourneur, The Atheist’s Tragedy (1611).
 Vincent Voiture, Celestial Gifts (1618).
 Marc-Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, Poetical Works (1629).
 George Villiers of Buckingham, The Rehearsal (1671).
 Wespazjan Kochowski, Non-Idle Idleness (1674).

NON-FICTION

 Mariana Alcoforado, Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1669).
 Evliya Çelebi, Book of Travels (1672).

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