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Jan 4, 1400
East Asian Drama
Noh performers are storytellers which use their visual appearances and their movements to show the action of the characters rather than talking it out. -
Apr 4, 1519
First Letter from Mexico to the Spanish Crown
Hernan Cortes -
Apr 4, 1568
The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo -
The True Constitution of a Particular Visible Church
John Cotton -
Chkamtsu Monzaemon
He is best known for tragedies involving ordinary men and women in the kansai. Wrote about pupets and stage plays. -
The Tenth Muse
Anne Bradstreet -
The Day of Doom
Author: Michael Wigglesworth
This was a popular poem that sold about 1800 copies in the first year. -
Tartuffe
Author: Moliere
Characters: Dorine, Cleante, Elmire, Madame Pemelle, Monsieur, Loyal, Argas, Orgon, Flipote, Valere, Tartuffe, A king's Officer, Laurent, Damis, Mariane.
Plot: The story is about a man who is an imposter and convinces the man of the house that he is a good man almost as a "God". Therefore he lets him into the house where this man takes advantage of all that he helps him with and even wants to take his wife away from him. -
Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft and Possessions
Cotton Mather -
Enlightenment
This is a movement in the late 17th and 18th centuries focus on reason and individualism rather than tradition. The Philosophers were: Locke, Newton, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. -
The Selling of Joseph
Judge Samuel Sewall -
History of Virginia
Robert Beverley -
The Love Suicides at Amijima
Koharu is a 19 year old girl that lives in a Kinokuni House in Sonezaki, which is a prostitute. There are two guys that want to be with her. Those two are Jihei and Tahei. Jihei is a 28 year old man married with two children and is a merchant paper. Tahei is wealthy man that has a bigger chance to have Koharu. At the end Koharu and Jihei commit suicide in order to be together in the after life. -
History of the Five Indian Nations
Dr. Cadwallader Colden -
A Modest Proposal
Author: Jonathan Swift
Summary: Swift used satire to write a solution about having too many babies. The solution for that is why doesn't everyone eat them that way the parents don't have to deal with them. -
New Experiments and Observations on Electricity
Benjamin Franklin -
Candide
Author: Voltiare
Important Symbol: The Garden! -
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
John Dickinson -
A Short Narrative of My Life
Samson Occom -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine -
The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan
James Kirke Paulding
A satiric of the foudning and rebellion of the American Colonies -
The Story of the Stone
Aurhor: Cao Xeuqin -
The Blithedale Romance
Hawthorne -
The Blithedale Romance
Melville -
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass -
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Mark Twain -
Oldtown Folks
Stowe -
Death of Lydia Maria Child
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Author: Tolstoy -
The Heart of Darkness
Author: Conrad
