| Shakespeare: |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
Richard II
Henry IV, part 1
Antony and Cleopatra
King Lear
Othello
Hamlet
Macbeth
Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day")
Sonnet 29 ("When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes")
Sonnet 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")
Sonnet 146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth") |
| Jonson: |
Volpone
The Alchemist |
| Donne: |
"The Ecstasy"
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
"Holy Sonnet 14" ("Batter my heart, three-personed God") |
| Herbert: |
"The Collar"
"Love (III)" |
| Marvell: |
"To His Coy Mistress"
"The Garden" |
| Milton: |
Paradise Lost |
| Dryden: |
"MacFlecknoe" |
| Pope: |
"The Rape of the Lock" |
| Swift: |
Gulliver's Travels |
| Fielding: |
Joseph Andrews |
| Burney: |
Evelina |
| Boswell: |
Life of Johnson (abridged) (Penguin Edition) |