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Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,091,892 ratings — published 1601
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.89 — 449,144 ratings — published 1603
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.78 — 234,860 ratings — published 1611
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.91 — 244,107 ratings — published 1605
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,893,161 ratings — published 1590
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,057,379 ratings — published 1623
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.94 — 594,413 ratings — published 1595
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.86 — 188,523 ratings — published 1667
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.96 — 198,611 ratings — published 1623
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.80 — 74,212 ratings — published 1588
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,589 ratings — published 1596
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.06 — 263,604 ratings — published 1598
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,669 ratings — published 1594
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,813 ratings — published 1623
Richard II (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,996 ratings — published 1597
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,359 ratings — published 1513
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.72 — 226,201 ratings — published 1599
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,081 ratings — published 1605
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.55 — 85,964 ratings — published 1516
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,440 ratings — published 1593
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,511 ratings — published 1599
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.80 — 34,396 ratings — published 1597
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,447 ratings — published 1599
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.73 — 184,023 ratings — published 1593
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,532 ratings — published 1590
Measure for Measure (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.68 — 32,331 ratings — published 1604
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.25 — 115,348 ratings — published 1609
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,412 ratings — published 1606
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.70 — 55,062 ratings — published 1651
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,643 ratings — published 1976
The Spanish Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.56 — 8,880 ratings — published 1592
The Reformation: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,659 ratings — published 2003
Coriolanus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.73 — 20,225 ratings — published 1608
The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,733 ratings — published 1594
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.08 — 164,707 ratings — published 1678
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,460 ratings — published 1972
The Duchess of Malfi (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.64 — 19,216 ratings — published 1614
Henry IV, Part Two (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.77 — 21,840 ratings — published 1598
Cymbeline (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.61 — 12,369 ratings — published 1610
The Return of Martin Guerre (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,633 ratings — published 1983
Edward II (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,673 ratings — published 1593
Henry VI, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.55 — 10,199 ratings — published 1592
Oroonoko (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.01 — 17,555 ratings — published 1688
Troilus and Cressida (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.42 — 13,109 ratings — published 1601
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.76 — 310,649 ratings — published 1759
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.55 — 15,076 ratings — published 1597
The Jew of Malta (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,286 ratings — published 1589
Tamburlaine (Dover Thrift Editions)
by (shelved 14 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,092 ratings — published 1587
King Henry VI, Part 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,255 ratings — published 1592
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as early-modern)
avg rating 3.68 — 339,418 ratings — published 1719
“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
“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 ...