Brits
Plays and Playwrights
The "Enlightenment
Science Fiction
Epic Poetry
400

Aldous Huxley wrote this class, a dystopia where everything is actually perfect and one ranked by the first few Greek letters

Brave New World

400

This plays portrays Puritans, an allegory to McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare

The Crucible

400

Florentine Niccolo Machiavelli, the father of political science, wrote this classic on politics

The Prince

400

This novel, considered the be first of science fiction, recounts the life of a scientist and his manufactured monster

Frankenstein

400

This Sumerian piece is considered to be the first work of Literature

The Epic Of Gilgamesh

800

This Victorian Era classic begins with, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”

A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens

800

This shakespearean comedy takes place in Padua, Italy

The Taming of the Shrew

800

This French philosopher and playwright spread the ideas of freedom of speech, thought, and religion

Voltaire

800

This classic by H.G. Wells, tells the story of an alien invasion by squid-like creatures

War of the Worlds

800

This ancient greek story, by Apollonius of Rhodes, recounts the story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the golden fleece

The Argonautica

1200

This author, often considered the father of Sci-fi wrote classics on aliens, superpowers, and time travel

H.G. Wells

1200

This ancient Greek man is considered to be the first actor, performing at the Theatre of Dionysus

Thespus

1200

This Frenchman, writer of The Spirit of Laws, influenced our government with Separation of Powers

Montesquieu

1200

He is the author of short stories, such as The Veldt, A Sound of Thunder, and All Summer in a Day

Ray Bradbury

1200

The ancient Roman poet is best known for his epic, Metamorphoses

Ovid

1600

This 17th-Century Epic, written by a man with the same surname as a famous candyman, details the one of the most famous Biblical stories

Paradise Lost

1600

This playwright introduced the ground-breaking concept of plays with 2 actors

Aescylus

1600

This book, written by this man, supported absolute monarchy in the aftermath of the English Civil War

The Leviathan

1600

This novel, by John Wyndham, tells the story of world where nearly everyone was blinded and anthropomorphic plants roam the earth

The Day of the Triffids

1600

This epic of a man who fights a monster by an unknown author, involves Swedes, Danes, and Geats

Beowulf

2000

The final part of this classic novel takes place in the fictional Land of the Houyhnhnms

Gulliver's Travels

2000

This playwright, the father of the comedy, criticized contemporary politics, with his most famous play about a certain aquatic creature

Aristophanes, The Frogs

Daily Double

2000

The name of Immanuel Kant’s most famous work on ethics and philosophy

Critique of Pure Reason

2000

The aliens who visit Earth in this book, the Overlords,  are so advanced, that they already know English

Childhood's End

2000

This classic epic features this quote, “Now, whoever has courage and a strong and collected spirit in his breast, let him come forward, lace on the gloves and put up his hands”

The Aeneid