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The period when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional Daimyo.
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One of the most famous theatrical comedies by Molière. The main characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Valère are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles.
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A cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in late 17th-century Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. Its purpose was to reform society using reason, to challenge ideas grounded in tradition and faith, and to advance knowledge through the scientific method.
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Written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon. This play was a new genre he pioneered called the "contemporary-life play". The play is based off a recent act of double suicide, which was the first time such scandalous contemporary event depicted on the puppet theater stage.
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Written by Jonathon Swift. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for the rich.This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general.
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George Sales publishes the first English translation of the Qur'an.
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"Literary inquisition" in China by the Manchu Qing Dynasty
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It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines.
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Written by Voltaire, this novel is a french satire.Candide has enjoyed both great success and great scandal. Immediately after its secretive publication, the book was widely banned because it contained religious blasphemy, political sedition and intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of naïveté.
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Written by Goethe
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Thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13 newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America.
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Written by Immanuel Kant in 1784.
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Written by the Grimm brothers in 1790.
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Written by William Wordsworth in 1798.
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Published by Richard Allen in 1801.
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Written by Goethe in 1808,
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Written by Jane Austen in 1813.
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Written by William Butler Yeats in 1825.
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Goethe coins the phrase "world literature".
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Written by William Wordsworth.
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Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1835.
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Compiled by Thomas Crofton Croker in 1842.
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Written by Emily Bronte in 1847.
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Written by Marx and Engels in 1848.
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Written by Charles Darwin in 1859.
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Written by Leo Tolstoy in 1886.
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Written by William Wordsworth in 1888.
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Written by Joseph Jacobs in 1890.
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Written by Ichiyo Higuchi in 1894.
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Written by Pablo Neruda in 1924.
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Written by Pablo Neruda in 1933.
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Written by Pablo Nervuda in 1936.
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Told by Caesar Grant, written by Eugiene Oneill.
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A novel by Barry Hughart, first published in 1988. It is part of a series set in a version of ancient China that began with Bridge of Birds and continues with Eight Skilled Gentlemen.
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Written in 1899 by Joseph Conrad.
