English Literature

APPENDIX

by Wyatt and Surrey

1539. The Great Bible


1540. Edward VI


1541. Mary 1557. Tottel’s Miscellany


1542. Elizabeth (d. 1603) 1559. John Knox in Edinburgh
      1562(?). Gammer Gurton’s Needle.
      Gorboduc


1543. Birth of Shakespeare


1544. Rise of English Puritans 1576. First Theater


1545. Drake’s Voyage
      around the World 1579. Spenser’s
      Shepherd’s Calendar.
      Lyly’s Euphues.
      North’s Plutarch.


1546. Shakespeare in London.
      Marlowe’s Tambourlaine


1547. Defeat of the Armada


1548. Spenser’s Faery Queen.
      Sidney’s Arcadia
      1590-1595. Shakespeare’s Early Plays
      1597-1625. Bacon’s Essays
      1598-1614. Chapman’s Homer


1549. Ben Jonson’s Every Man
      in His Humour
      1600-1607. Shakespeare’s Tragedies


1550. James I (d. 1625)


1551. Divine Right
      of Kings proclaimed 1605. Bacon’s Advancement of Learning


1552. Settlement at Jamestown,
      Virginia 1608. Birth of Milton


1553. Translation (King James Version)