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Sir Guyon
Sir Guyon's 2011 Reading List
Sir Thomas More - Utopia
Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella, The Defense of Poesy,
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia II,
Edmund Spenser - The Shepheardes Calender, The Faerie Queene I,
The Faerie Queene II, The Faerie Queene III,
Amoretti
Sir Francis Bacon - Essays, New Atlantis
Christopher Marlowe - Dido, The Tragical Historie of Dr. Faustus
William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, As You Like It,
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV pt.1,`Sonnets
Ben Jonson - Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, The Sad Shepherd,
Epigrams
John Fletcher - The Faithful Shepherdess
Francis Beaumont - The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Beaumont and Fletcher - Philaster, A King and No King
John Milton - Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes
John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
Elizabeth Cary - The Tragedy of Mariam
The Cambridge Companion to Spenser
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
The Cambridge Companion to Milton
Greenblatt - Renaissance Self-Fashioning: More to Shakespeare