| 1587. Shakespeare in London. Marlowe's
| Tamburlaine
|
1588. Defeat of the Armada |
|
| 1590. Spenser's Faery Queen. Sidney's
| Arcadia
|
| 1590-1595. Shakespeare's Early Plays
|
| 1597-1625. Bacon's Essays
|
| 1598-1614. Chapman's Homer
|
| 1598. Ben Jonson's Every Man in His
| Humour
|
| 1600-1607. Shakespeare's Tragedies
|
1603. James I (_d_. 1625) |
|
1604. Divine Right of Kings | 1605. Bacon's Advancement of Learning
proclaimed |
|
1607. Settlement at Jamestown, | 1608. Birth of Milton
Virginia |
|
| 1611. Translation (King James Version)
| of Bible
|
| 1614. Raleigh's History
|
| 1616. Death of Shakespeare
|
1620. Pilgrim Fathers at | 1620-1642. Shakespeare's successors.
Plymouth | End of drama
|
| 1620. Bacon's Novum Organum
|
| 1622. First regular newspaper, The
| Weekly News
|
1625. Charles I | 1626. Death of Bacon
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CHAPTER VII

THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660)

I. HISTORICAL SUMMARY

THE PURITAN MOVE