History of english literature plan

Major writers and Their Major Works:

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  Thomas More (1478-1535):Utopia (or kingdom of Nowhere). The book was originally written in Latin in 1516.
  
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  Edmund Spenser (1552-99), the poet of the poets. He is called the poet of the poets because after his death many later English poets followed his art of poetry.The Faerie Queen's (1590)The Shepherd's Calendar (1579) 
  
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  Nicholas Udall:Ralph Roister Doister (1553), the fit English comedy.
  
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  Norton and Sackville (1536-1608):Gorboduc (1562), the first English tragedy.
  
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  Thomas Kyd (1557-1595), a university wit: * The Spanish Tragedy (1585).
  
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  Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86)An Apologize for Poetrie (1595), a critical treatise.Arcadia (1590), book that bears the embryo of English nobel.
  
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  .* University wits are a group of young dramatists who wrote and performed in London towards the end of the 16th century. They are called university wits because they were the witty students of Cambridge or Oxford. Marlowe, Kyd, Nashe, Greene, Lyly and Peele were the members of this group. They upheld the classical ideals, and ridiculed the crudeness of the new English plays.
  
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  Christophe Marlowe (1564-93), a university wit:Tamburlaine the Great (1587)Dr.Faustus (1592)The Jew of Malta (1589); Edward II (1591).
  
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  William Shakespeare(1564-1616): famous for the objective presentation of his deep knowledge about human psychology. He wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets. Of the total 37 plays he wrote the following 25 before the death of Queen Elizabeth I:
  
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  1.Henry VI (1st. Part. 1591-92)
  
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  2.Henry VI (2nd. Part. 1591-92)
  
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  3.Henry VI (3rd. Part. 1591-92)
  
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  4. Richard III (1593)
  
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  5. The Comedy of Errors (1593)
  
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  6. Titus Andronicus (1594)
  
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  7. The Taming of the Shrew (1594)
  
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  8. Love's Labour's Lost (1594)
  
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  9. Romeo and Juliet (1594)
  
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  10. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
  
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  11. The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1595)
  
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  12. King John (1595)
  
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  13. Richard II (1596)
  
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  14. The Merchant of Venice (1596)
  
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  15. Henry IV (1st. Part. 1597)
  
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  16. Henry IV (2nd. Part. 1598)
  
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  17. Much Ado about Nothing (1598)
  
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  18. Henry V (1599)
  
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  19. Julius Caesar (1599)
  
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  20. The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600)
  
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  21. As You Like It (1600)
  
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  22. Hamlet (1601)
  
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  23. Twelfth Night (1601)
  
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  24. Troilus and Cressida (1602) 
  
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  25. All's Well that Ends Well (1602)
  
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  Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the natural philosopher:Essays (1597) 
  
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  Ben Jonson (1573-1637), a neoclassicist though he wrote in the time when romanticism was the main mode of expression. He is called a neo-classicist because he followed the classical rules of drama:Every Man in His Humour (1599)
  
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  John Lyly (1554-1606), a university wit:Campaspe (1584) Sapho and Phao(1584)Midas (1589)Euphues (1579), a book that bears the embryo of English novel.
  
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  Robert Greene (1558-92), a university wit:Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (158James- IV (1591)
  
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  George Peele (1558-98), a university wit:David and Bethsabe (1599)Arraignment of Paris (1584)
  
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  Thomas Nashe (1567-1601), a university wit: The unfortunate Traveller (1594)
  
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  Beaumont (1584-1616) and Fletcher (1579-1625):Philaster (1611) A king and No King (1611)The Maid's Tragedy (1610)