Research Guides: Early Modern Works in Special Collections: Literature

Shakespeare's Contemporaries

Below is a selection of works by contemporaries of Shakespeare. To find additional titles, search the catalog or contact us.

Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. By Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. London, Printed by J. Macock, for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, MDCLXXIX. Rare Folio PR2420 1679.

Le rime del Petrarcha,: tanto piu corrette, quanto piu ultime di tutte stampate: con alcune annotationi intorno la correttione d’alcuni luoghi loro già corrotti. by Francesco Petrarca
Call Number: Rare PQ4477.A1 1549
Publication Date: 1549
In Vinegia,: Nella Bottega d’Erasmo di Vincenzo Valgrisi:, 1549.
Orlando furioso / de M. Ludouico Ariosto, dirigido al Principe Don Philippe N.S.; traduzido en romance castellano por el S. Don Hieronimo de Vrrea, y nueuamente impresso y con diligentia corregido, e adornado de uarias figuras e con nueuos argumentos y al by Lodovico Ariosto
Call Number: Rare PQ4582.S5 A37 1553
Publication Date: 1553
Impresso en Venecia: Por Gabriel Giolito de Ferrariis y sus hermanos, 1553.
The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia. Now the ninth time published, with a twofold supplement of a defect in the third book: the one by Sir W.A. Knight, the other by Ja. Johnstoun. Whereunto is also added a sixth book, by R.B. of Lincolnes Inne, Esq. by Philip Sidney
Call Number: Rare Folio PR2342.A5 1638
Publication Date: 1638
London, Printed for J. Waterson and R. Young, 1638.
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac: comédie: faite à Chambord, pour le divertissement du roy / par I.B.P. Molière by Molière
Call Number: Rare PQ1838 .M7 1670
Publication Date: 1670
[Amsterdam: Elzevier] Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris, 1670.
Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gentlemen. All in one Volume. Published by the Authors Original Copies, the Songs to each Play being added... by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Call Number: Rare Folio PR2420 1679
Publication Date: 1679
London, Printed by J. Macock, for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, MDCLXXIX.
Fables ancient and modern: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with original poems / by Mr. Dryden. by John Dryden
Call Number: Rare Folio PR3418.F3 1700
Publication Date: 1700
London: J. Tonson, 1700.

Literary Influences Printed in the Early Modern Era

Below is a selection of influential literary works printed in the Early Modern era. For more titles, search the catalog or contact us.

Virgil. Opera Virgiliana. [Parisiis] 1529. Rare Folio PA6801 .A2 1529 (full text available online)

Opera Virgiliana by Virgil
Call Number: Rare Folio PA6801 .A2 1529
Publication Date: 1529
[Parisiis] 1529.
C[aius] Plinij Caecilij Secundi, nouocomens[is] Epistolarum lib[ri] X: eiusdem Panegyricus Traiano dictus / cum commentarijs Ioannis Mariae Catanaei...; multis epistolis cum illarum interpretatione adiectis. by Pliny the Younger
Call Number: Rare Folio PA6638.A2 1533
Publication Date: 1533
[Paris]: Veneunt Iodoco Badio & Ioanni Roigny, 1533.
The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed with dyvers workes whiche were never in print before. by Geoffrey Chaucer
Call Number: Rare Folio PR1850 1545
Publication Date: 1545
[London, Willyam Bonham, ca. 1545]
L’eneide de Virgile: translatee de latin en françois / par Louïs des Masures, Tournisien; auec les carmes latins, correspondans verset pour verset; le tout reueu & corrigé de nouueau. by Virgil
Call Number: Rare PA6809.A5 D47 1567
Publication Date: 1567
A Paris: Iean Borel, 1567.
Le deuxiesme volume des oeuures morales et meslees de Seneque: contenant ses CXXIIII epistres ou diuers discours philosophiques à Lucilius / mis en françois par Simon Goulart Senlisien. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Call Number: Rare PA6667.E6 S46 1590
Publication Date: 1590
A Paris: Chez Iean Houze..., 1590.
Ploutarchou Chairōneōs ta sōzomena panta = Plutarchi Chaeronensis quae extant omnia / cum Latina interpretatione Hermanni Cruserij; Gulielmi Xylandri, et doctorum virorvm notis, et libellis variantium lectionum ex mss. codd. diligenter collectarum, et ind by Plutarch
Call Number: Rare Folio PA4367.A2 1599
Publication Date: Francofurti: Apud Andreae Wecheli haeredes, Claudium Marnium, & Ioannem Aubrium, 1599.
https://catalog.umd.edu/docno=002130556
Les œuures morales et meslees de Plutarque: translatees de Grec en François, reueues & corrigees en plusieurs passages par le translateur... by Plutarch
Call Number: Rare Folio PQ1601.A5 A7 1604
Publication Date: 1604
[Geneva]: De l’imprimerie de Iacob Stoer, 1604.
Les epistres de Seneque / traduites par mre. François de Malherbe... by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Call Number: Rare PA6667.E6 M25 1640
Publication Date: 1640
A Paris: Chez Antoine de Sommauille ..., 1640.
Les metamorphoses d’Ovide: en latin et françois, divisées en XV. livres / avec de nouvelles explications historiques, morales & politiques sur toutes les fables, chacune selon son sujet, de la traduction de Mr. Pierre Du-Ryer... by Ovid
Call Number: Rare Folio PA6523.M2 D87 1677
Publication Date: 1677
A Bruxelles: Chez François Foppens, marchand libraire & imprimeur ..., 1677.