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Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,898,569 ratings — published 1590
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.94 — 595,662 ratings — published 1595
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 402,997 ratings — published 1513
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.73 — 184,375 ratings — published 1593
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 241,729 ratings — published 2009
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 4.06 — 264,094 ratings — published 1598
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 115,601 ratings — published 1609
Tamburlaine (Dover Thrift Editions)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,132 ratings — published 1587
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 523,381 ratings — published 2020
Venus and Adonis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,977 ratings — published 1592
The City of Tears (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,164 ratings — published 2021
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.55 — 86,245 ratings — published 1516
The Complete Poems and Translations (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 4.05 — 385 ratings — published 1598
King John (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.36 — 8,509 ratings — published 1981
King Henry VI, Part 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.62 — 8,779 ratings — published 1591
The First Folio of Shakespeare: 1623 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 4.70 — 357 ratings — published 1623
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.96 — 198,985 ratings — published 1623
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 205,820 ratings — published 1596
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 74,408 ratings — published 1588
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 450,274 ratings — published 1603
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 4.06 — 63,962 ratings — published 2003
The Jew of Malta (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,319 ratings — published 1589
King Henry VI, Part 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,318 ratings — published 1592
Henry IV, Part Two (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 21,921 ratings — published 1598
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.72 — 226,822 ratings — published 1599
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,657 ratings — published 1599
Henry VI, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.55 — 10,251 ratings — published 1592
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,474 ratings — published 2003
The Book Named The Governor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published 1531
The comedy of Mucedorus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.26 — 43 ratings — published 1598
The Wife of Martin Guerre (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,076 ratings — published 1941
Troilus and Cressida (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.42 — 13,196 ratings — published 1601
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,670 ratings — published 1592
Mother Hubberd's Tale of the Fox and Ape. Selected from the Works of Edmund Spenser. with the Obsolete Words Explained. (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2010
Arden of Faversham (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.45 — 811 ratings — published 1982
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,851 ratings — published 1594
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,703 ratings — published 1599
Fulgens and Lucres (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.12 — 40 ratings — published 1920
Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,206 ratings — published 1563
A Looking Glass for London and England (Malone Society Reprint Series)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.27 — 11 ratings — published 1592
Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex (Regents Renaissance Drama)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.05 — 117 ratings — published 1970
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.43 — 771 ratings — published 1620
Pericles (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.46 — 9,502 ratings — published 1608
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,582 ratings — published 1590
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,189,795 ratings — published 1991
The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernized and Annotated Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published 2008
Beware the Cat: The First English Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.49 — 199 ratings — published 1561
Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.58 — 24 ratings — published 1592
Greene's Arcadia; Or Menaphon: Camilla's Alarum to Slumber Euphues in His Melancholy Cell at Silexedra (Classic Reprint)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1996
Galatea (Revels Student Editions)
by (shelved 1 time as sixteenth-century)
avg rating 3.74 — 733 ratings — published 1592
“When a Mannerist artist breaks rules he does so on the basis of knowledge and not of ignorance. A considerable amount of North European architecture of the sixteenth century must be excluded for these reasons.”
― Mannerism
― Mannerism
“If we say that a person has style we may wish to imply that he is unnatural, affected, self-conscious or ostentatious. In the sixteenth century 'maniera' was generally a desirable attribute of a work of art, but this positive aspect was accompanied by the realization of the negative one that correspond to what we now call, derogatively, stylization.”
― Mannerism
― Mannerism