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Early Modern Books
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Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,063,869 ratings — published 1601
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.78 — 229,371 ratings — published 1611
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.91 — 239,336 ratings — published 1605
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.89 — 440,218 ratings — published 1603
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,842,505 ratings — published 1590
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.94 — 582,667 ratings — published 1595
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,031,296 ratings — published 1623
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.86 — 184,158 ratings — published 1667
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,991 ratings — published 1588
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.96 — 195,914 ratings — published 1623
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,246 ratings — published 1596
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.06 — 260,078 ratings — published 1598
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.67 — 34,809 ratings — published 1594
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,032 ratings — published 1623
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.71 — 221,280 ratings — published 1599
Richard II (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,251 ratings — published 1595
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.84 — 387,081 ratings — published 1532
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.91 — 308,260 ratings — published 1615
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.91 — 59,121 ratings — published 1593
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.55 — 84,046 ratings — published 1516
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.80 — 33,719 ratings — published 1597
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.84 — 53,692 ratings — published 1599
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.73 — 181,557 ratings — published 1593
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.81 — 89,722 ratings — published 1599
Measure for Measure (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.67 — 31,646 ratings — published 1604
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,385 ratings — published 1590
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.71 — 44,253 ratings — published 1606
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.25 — 113,107 ratings — published 1609
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.70 — 53,583 ratings — published 1651
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,180 ratings — published 1976
The Reformation: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,573 ratings — published 2003
Coriolanus (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,707 ratings — published 1608
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,423 ratings — published 1972
The Spanish Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.56 — 8,696 ratings — published 1592
The Duchess of Malfi (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.63 — 18,925 ratings — published 1614
The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,889 ratings — published 1594
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.08 — 160,987 ratings — published 1678
Henry VI, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.54 — 9,900 ratings — published 1592
Henry IV, Part Two (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.77 — 21,447 ratings — published 1598
Cymbeline (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.60 — 12,052 ratings — published 1610
Edward II (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,522 ratings — published 1593
The Return of Martin Guerre (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,445 ratings — published 1983
Troilus and Cressida (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.42 — 12,773 ratings — published 1601
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.76 — 304,210 ratings — published 1759
Oroonoko (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.01 — 17,224 ratings — published 1688
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.55 — 14,688 ratings — published 1597
The Jew of Malta (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,209 ratings — published 1589
Tamburlaine (Dover Thrift Editions)
by (shelved 14 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,010 ratings — published 1587
King Henry VI, Part 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,026 ratings — published 1592
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.39 — 17,467 ratings — published 1594
“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
“And new Philosophy calls all in doubt,
The Element of fire is quite put out;
The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit
Can well direct him where to looke for it ...
'Tis all in peeces, all coherence gone;
All just supply, and all Relation.”
― An Anatomy of the World: Wherein, by Occasion of the Untimely Death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury ...
The Element of fire is quite put out;
The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit
Can well direct him where to looke for it ...
'Tis all in peeces, all coherence gone;
All just supply, and all Relation.”
― An Anatomy of the World: Wherein, by Occasion of the Untimely Death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury ...
