Mister D|z World
The Age of Elizabeth
Recommended Sources
PRIMARY SOURCES By
the time of the Renaissance and Reformation, the printing press was stimulating
an explosion of literary work. There are many thousands of acceptable original
source readings for this period; this list merely suggests a few of the
more obvious possibilities.
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Francois Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Miguel Cervantes. Don Quixote
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William Shakespeare, the Plays*
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Bernal Diaz. The Conquest of New Spain
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Miguel de Montaigne. Essays
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Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince
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Erasmus. In Praise of Folly
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Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron
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Voltaire. Candide
* Reading Shakespeare is encouraged, but it must a play
you have not previously read, in classes or on your own.
FICTION
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Antonia Fraser. Mary, Queen of Scots
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Irving Stone. The Agony and the Ecstasy (re. Michalangelo)
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Hermann Hesse. Narcissus and Goldmund
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John Banville. Doctor Copernicus
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Margaret George. The Autobiography of Henry VIII
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Jack Dann. The Memory Cathedral: a Secret History of Leonardo da Vinci
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Bolt. A Man for All Seasons (re. Thomas More and Henry VIII)
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Barry Unsworth. Sacred Hunger (a novel of the slave trade)
NON-FICTION
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Daniel J. Boorstin. The Discoverers (Part VII "The American Surprise"
Part VIII "Sea Paths to Everywhere"
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Fernand Braudel. The Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II
FILM
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A Man for All Seasons
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Mary, Queen of Scots
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1492: the Conquest of Paradise
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Anne of the Thousand Days
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The Mission