Timeline: Midterm Timeline

Jan 4, 1400

East Asian Drama

Noh performers are storytellers which use their visual appearances and their movements to show the action of the characters rather than talking it out.

Apr 4, 1519

First Letter from Mexico to the Spanish Crown

Hernan Cortes

Apr 4, 1568

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain

Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

Apr 4, 1642

The True Constitution of a Particular Visible Church

John Cotton

Apr 4, 1650

Chkamtsu Monzaemon

He is best known for tragedies involving ordinary men and women in the kansai. Wrote about pupets and stage plays.

Apr 4, 1650

The Tenth Muse

Anne Bradstreet

Apr 4, 1662

The Day of Doom

Author: Michael Wigglesworth
This was a popular poem that sold about 1800 copies in the first year.

May 12, 1664

Tartuffe

Author: Moliere
Characters: Dorine, Cleante, Elmire, Madame Pemelle, Monsieur, Loyal, Argas, Orgon, Flipote, Valere, Tartuffe, A king's Officer, Laurent, Damis, Mariane.
Plot: The story is about a man who is an imposter and convinces the man of the house that he is a good man almost as a "God". Therefore he lets him into the house where this man takes advantage of all that he helps him with and even wants to take his wife away from him.

Apr 6, 1685

Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft and Possessions

Cotton Mather

Apr 4, 1700

Enlightenment

This is a movement in the late 17th and 18th centuries focus on reason and individualism rather than tradition. The Philosophers were: Locke, Newton, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.

Jun 24, 1700

The Selling of Joseph

Judge Samuel Sewall

Apr 8, 1705

History of Virginia

Robert Beverley

Jan 3, 1721

The Love Suicides at Amijima

Koharu is a 19 year old girl that lives in a Kinokuni House in Sonezaki, which is a prostitute. There are two guys that want to be with her. Those two are Jihei and Tahei. Jihei is a 28 year old man married with two children and is a merchant paper. Tahei is wealthy man that has a bigger chance to have Koharu. At the end Koharu and Jihei commit suicide in order to be together in the after life.

Apr 9, 1727

History of the Five Indian Nations

Dr. Cadwallader Colden

Apr 4, 1729

A Modest Proposal

Author: Jonathan Swift
Summary: Swift used satire to write a solution about having too many babies. The solution for that is why doesn't everyone eat them that way the parents don't have to deal with them.