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1501 - The Book of Margery Kempe (posthumous)

1503 - The Thrissill and the Rois - William Dunbar

1505 - The Passtyme of Pleasure and The Temple of Glass - Stephen Hawes

1508 - The Goldyn Targe - William Dunbar

1509 - In Praise of Folly - Erasmus

1512 - Fulgens and Lucrece - Henry Medwall

1513 - First translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English language (Scots dialect) by Gavin Douglas

1514 - Francesco Maria Molzo translates Aeneid into Italian, in consecutive unrhymed verse (forerunner of Blank verse)

1514-15 - Sofonisba - Gian Giorgio Trissino

1515 - The New Chronicles of England and France by Robert Fabyan

about 1516 - Utopia by Thomas More

1526 - William Tyndale's Bible translation

1527 - Historia Scotorum - Hector Boece

1532 - The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

1535 - Huon of Bordeaux - John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners

1539 - The Castel of Helth - Sir Thomas Elyot

1540 - Historia Scotorum of Hector Boece, translated into vernacular Scots by John Bellenden at the special request of James V of Scotland

1541 - Baptistes and Jephtha - George Buchanan

1542 - The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke - Edward Hall

1543

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human body in Seven Books) – Andreas Vesalius

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres) – Nicolaus Copernicus

1545

Toxophilus - Roger Ascham

1553

(about 1553) – Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister, the first comedies written in the English language

1559

The Elizabethan version of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, which remained in use until the mid-17th century and was the first English Prayer Book in America.

1560

Geneva Bible - William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson

1562

Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes - William Bullein

Gorboduc (play) - Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville

Jack Juggler (play) - anonymous, sometimes attributed to Nicholas Udall

1563

Foxe's Book of Martyrs - John Foxe

1576

Six livres de la République - Jean Boudin

1577

The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Irelande - Raphael Holinshed

The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies - Richard Eden

1578

A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie…under the Conduct of Martin Frobisher - George Best

Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly

First Fruits - John Florio

1579

Honest Excuses - Thomas Lodge

The Schoole of Abuse - Stephen Gosson

1582

Divers Voyages - Richard Hakluyt

Rerum Scoticarum Historia - George Buchanan

1583

The Anatomy of Abuses - Philip Stubbes

1584

The Araygnement of Paris - George Peele

1585

La Galatea - Miguel de Cervantes

1586

A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia - Thomas Hariot

Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland - John Knox

The Raigne of Edward III - anonymous, attributed by some to William Shakespeare

The Arte of English Poesie - attributed to George Puttenham

Primera parte de la Angélica - Luis Barahona de Soto

Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne - John Lyly

1588

The Anatomie of Absurditie - Thomas Nashe

The Battle of Alcazar - George Peele (performed)

1590

An Almond for a Parrat - Thomas Nashe

Arcadia - Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous)

Rosalynde - Thomas Lodge

Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First - George Peele

1591

Astrophel and Stella - Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous)

1592

Diana - Henry Constable

The Spanish Tragedy (play) - Thomas Kyd

The Tragedy of Mr Arden of Feversham (play) - anonymous (previously attributed to William Shakespeare)

Groatsworth of Wit - Robert Greene

Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets - Gabriel Harvey

The Shepherd's Garland - Michael Drayton

1593

Peirs Gaveston - Michael Drayton

1594

The Battle of Alcazar (play, printed) - George Peele

Cleopatra (play) - Samuel Daniel

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie - Richard Hooker

The Seamans Secrets - Sir John Davys

Romeo and Juliet -William Shakespeare

1595

An Apologie for Poetrie - Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous)

Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia - Thomas Harriot

Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Edmund Spenser

Poemata - Thomas Campion

1596

Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing - Sir John Davies

The Civell Warres of Edward the Second and the Barrons - Michael Drayton

The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser

The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana - Sir Walter Raleigh

1597

Englands Heroicall Epistles - Michael Drayton

The Isle of Dogs (play) - Thomas Nashe & Ben Jonson

Richard II - William Shakespeare

1598

Every Man in His Humour (play) - Ben Jonson

The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth (play) - Robert Greene

Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury - Francis Meres

Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth) - John Bodenham

Survey of London - John Stow

The Trew Law of Free Monarchies - King James VI of Scotland

1599

The Shoemaker's Holiday - Thomas Dekker

Patient Grissel - Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton

Every Man Out of His Humour (play) - Ben Jonson

Hymnes of Astraea (poetry) - Sir John Davies

Nosce Teipsum (poetry) - Sir John Davies

The Love of King David and Faire Bethsabe (poetry) - George Peele

Wits' Theater - John Bodenham

Henry V - William Shakespeare

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1515 - Roger Ascham

1547 - Miguel de Cervantes

1551 - William Camden

1555 - Lancelot Andrewes

1558 - Robert Greene

1558 - Thomas Kyd

1561 - Luís de Góngora y Argote

1564 - Christopher Marlowe

1564 - William Shakespeare

1570 - Robert Aytoun

1572 - Ben Jonson

1576 - John Marston

1577 - Robert Burton

1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

1583 - Philip Massinger

1587 - Joost van den Vondel

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1502 - Henry Medwall

1513 - Robert Fabyan

1552 - Alexander Barclay

1563 - John Bale

1568 - Roger Ascham

1577 - George Gascoigne

1592 - Robert Greene

1593 - Christopher Marlowe

1594 - Thomas Kyd

1595 - Luis Barahona de Soto