Paper 3 Dates

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (I - III)

1590

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (IV - VI)

1596

Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Irelande

written 1596, published posthumously 1633

Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Comes Home Againe

1595

Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry

written approx 1580, published posthumously 1595

Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella

written early 1580s, unauthorised posthumous print publication 1591, later authoritative edition in 1598

Mary (Sidney) Herbert, ‘A Dialogue between Two Shepherds, Thenot and Piers’

1602 (circulated in manuscript in her lifetime, published posthumously)

Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia

written 1577 - 80, circulated in manuscript

Sir Phillip Sidney, New Arcadia

written 1580 - 84 (revised, expanded, unfinished), printed posthumously 1590

Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Composite’ Arcadia

1593 (ending of Old Arcadia attached to unfinished New Arcadia)

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

written 1588 - 92, first performed in this period (not recorded)

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus A-text

1604 (posthumous)

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus B-text

1616 (posthumous)

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

written 1612-13, performed 1613-14, published 1623

Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

written 1610 - 15, published 1621 (with Urania)

Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness

1605

Ben Jonson, The Masque of Beauty

1608

Ben Jonson, The Irish Masque

1613

Andrew Marvell, ‘An Horatian Ode on Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’

1650

Andrew Marvell, ‘Upon Appleton House’

written 1651 (published posthumously)

Andrew Marvell, ‘The Character of Holland’

written 1653 (published posthumously)

Andrew Marvell, ‘The Garden’

written 1650-52 (published posthumously)