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Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,097,822 ratings — published 1601
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.89 — 451,284 ratings — published 1603
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.91 — 245,321 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.78 — 236,158 ratings — published 1611
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,902,577 ratings — published 1590
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,062,446 ratings — published 1623
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.94 — 596,925 ratings — published 1595
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.86 — 189,843 ratings — published 1667
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.96 — 199,310 ratings — published 1623
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.80 — 74,612 ratings — published 1588
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.06 — 264,477 ratings — published 1598
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.77 — 208,635 ratings — published 1596
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.67 — 36,021 ratings — published 1594
Richard II (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.78 — 29,245 ratings — published 1597
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.71 — 38,053 ratings — published 1623
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.55 — 86,498 ratings — published 1516
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.84 — 404,499 ratings — published 1513
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.72 — 227,459 ratings — published 1599
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.92 — 317,375 ratings — published 1605
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.90 — 60,855 ratings — published 1592
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,805 ratings — published 1599
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.80 — 34,691 ratings — published 1597
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,965 ratings — published 1599
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.73 — 184,642 ratings — published 1593
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,609 ratings — published 1590
Measure for Measure (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.68 — 32,585 ratings — published 1604
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.25 — 115,773 ratings — published 1609
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,740 ratings — published 1606
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,775 ratings — published 1976
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.70 — 55,385 ratings — published 1651
The Spanish Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.56 — 9,006 ratings — published 1592
The Reformation: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,677 ratings — published 2003
Coriolanus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.73 — 20,400 ratings — published 1608
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,467 ratings — published 1972
Edward II (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,780 ratings — published 1593
The Duchess of Malfi (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.64 — 19,371 ratings — published 1614
The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,950 ratings — published 1594
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.08 — 166,336 ratings — published 1678
Henry IV, Part Two (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.77 — 21,998 ratings — published 1598
Cymbeline (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.61 — 12,474 ratings — published 1610
The Return of Martin Guerre (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,726 ratings — published 1983
Henry VI, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.55 — 10,310 ratings — published 1592
Troilus and Cressida (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.42 — 13,257 ratings — published 1601
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.76 — 315,561 ratings — published 1759
Oroonoko (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.01 — 17,679 ratings — published 1688
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.55 — 15,204 ratings — published 1597
The Jew of Malta (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,340 ratings — published 1589
Tamburlaine (Dover Thrift Editions)
by (shelved 14 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,172 ratings — published 1587
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.39 — 18,062 ratings — published 1594
King Henry VI, Part 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,369 ratings — published 1592
“but now I muſt recant and confeſſe that our Normane Engliſh which hath growen ſince William the Conquerour doth admit any of the auncient feete, by reaſon of the many poliſillables euen to ſix and ſeauen in one word, which we at this day vſe in our moſt ordinarie language: and which corruption hath bene occaſioned chiefly by the peeviſh affectation not of the Normans themſelues, but of clerks and ſcholers or ſecretaries long ſince, who not content with the vſual Normane or Saxon word, would conuert the very Latine and Greeke word into vulgar French, as to ſay innumerable for innombrable, reuocable, irreuocable, irradiation, depopulatiõ & ſuch like, which are not naturall Normans nor yet French, but altered Latines, and without any imitation at all: which therefore were long time deſpiſed for inkehorne termes, and now be reputed the beſt & moſt delicat of any other.”
― The Arte of English Poesie
― The Arte of English Poesie
“Catholic gossip and folklore, as one might term it, contributed to this demonizing legend around the conflict with the Protestants. At Geila in Brabant it was reported that the demons suddenly left all the possessed people, so that they could attend Luther's funeral[...] At St. Medard's Church in Paris the Calvinist iconoclasts allegedly broke all the winfows except that 'in gratitude' they left one which showed a red devil. In several other places, including St. Paul's in London, iconoclastic mobs left only depictions of devils untouched.”
― ENCHANTED EUROPE:SUPERSTITION, REASON & RELIGION 1250-1750 PAPER: Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750
― ENCHANTED EUROPE:SUPERSTITION, REASON & RELIGION 1250-1750 PAPER: Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750