Modern English Literature XVI - XVII

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 Henry VIII

From 1525 – Publication of William Tyndale's Bible translation, which was initially banned.
1539 – Publication of the Great Bible, edited by Myles Coverdale, it is largely from the work of Tyndale. Authorised by King Henry VIII of England.
1549 – Publication of the first Book of Common Prayer in English, under the supervision of Thomas Cranmer.
1557 – Publication of Tottel's Miscellany.


Elizabethan era (1558–1603)

1582 – The Rheims and Douai Bible is completed, and the New Testament is released in Rheims, France, in 1582. It is the first complete English translation of the Bible that is officially sponsored and carried out by the Catholic Church.


Tamburlaine 1587 or 1588.

1592 – The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd.

1590 to 1612 – Shakespeare's plays written.

Jacobean era (1603–1625)


1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets published.

1623 – Shakespeare's First Folio published.


Caroline era and English Civil War (1625–1649)

1630–1651 – William Bradford writes in his journal. It will become Of Plymouth Plantation.


Interregnum and Restoration.

1667 – Publication of Paradise Lost by John Milton and of Annus Mirabilis by John Dryden.

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