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Literary Prose and Drama
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Kemps Nine Daies WonderShakespeare's clown Morris-dances from London to Norwich in nine days, 1600 — the weirdest and most delightful pamphlet of the Elizabethan era.The Historie of the Damnable Life of Doctor FaustusThe English Faust Book (1592) — the foundational legend of a scholar who sells his soul to the Devil, source text for Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.The Second Report of Doctor John FaustusThe 1594 sequel to the English Faust Book, following the adventures of Wagner, Faustus's servant, who inherits his master's powers and travels to the court of the Duke of Austria.The Vnfortvnate TravellerThomas Nashe's picaresque masterpiece — a page's wild journey through Renaissance Europe, from the siege of Tournai to the horrors of Rome. The first English novel of adventure, in full Elizabethan voice.Works of King Henry VIIISongs, poems, and letters of the Tudor king — courtly love, companionship, and the pleasures of youth from a Renaissance monarch.