Turabo University

School of Professional Study

Undergraduate Program

Workshop #3
Carlos E. Hernndez Cruz

Prof. Cynthia Garca

ENGL 345 Childrens Literature

Sixteen Century Literature Time Line

In the centuries of the fifth teen and sixteen, childrens literature was not a
popular topic to write about. When authors decided to write, there themes were
directed, to adults. Moreover, it was a form of public expression, exposing real stories or
political events, also, it was the era where the resonance and the romanticism was born.
Also is known as the golden age, because, it was when the printed machine was
created. More important, it was the century were the first bible that was printed in 1455.
It is important to understand, that for this era, printing a book will cost three times the
cost of printing a book today. This is one of the reason, why some books are even
printed after the Authors dead. Here are the time lines of the authors that were the most
popular in those centuries.
Johannes Guttenberg (1395-1468)

Created the Print Machine

Christopher Marlow (1564-1593)

(1586) The Tragedy of Dido

(1587) Tamburlaine

1587-88 Tamburlaine Part Two

1889 The Jew of Malta

1589 Dr. Faustus (most popular book)

1593 Massacre of Paris (second most popular)

Phillip Sidney (1554-1586)

1580 A dialogue Between two Shepherds

1580 Letter to the Queen Elizabeth I

1590 Arcadia

1591 Astrophel and Stella

1595 The Defense of Poesy

1598 The Lady of May

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

1596 A Mid-Summer Nights Dream

1597 Romeo and Juliet (most popular)

1603 Hamlet (second most Popular)

1622 Othello

1623 Macbeth

1623 The Tempest

1623 Twelfthe Night

1623 As you Like it

1639 The Two Noble Kinsman

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

1678 The Pilgrims

References
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 16th Century. (2014). W.W. Norton and
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