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Titles of Literary Works

Works by Shakespeare

Drama

Ado
Ant.
AWW
AYL
Cor.
Cym.
Err.
Ham.
1H4
2H4
H5
1H6
2H6
3H6
H8
JC
Jn.
LLL
Lr
Mac.
MM
MND
MV
Oth.
Per.
R2
R3
Rom.
Shr.
TGV
Tim.
Tit.
Tmp.
TN
TNK
Tro.
Wiv.
WT

Much Ado about Nothing
Anthony and Cleopatra
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
The Comedy of Errors
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
Love's Labour's Lost
King Lear
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Othello
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Troilus and Cressida
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Winter's Tale

Poetry

LC
PR
PhT
Luc.
Ven.

A Lover's Complaint
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and the Turtle
The Rape of Lucerne
Venus and Adonis

Publications

Son.        Sonnets
F1           First Folio edition (1623)
F2           Second Folio edition (1632)
Q            Quarto edition

Works by Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

CT
GP
CYT
ClT
CkT
FranT
FrT
KnT
Mant
MLT
Mel
MerT
MilT
MkT
NPT
PardT
ParsT
PhyT
PrT
RvT
SNT
ShT
SqT
SumT
Th
WBT

The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
The Clerk's Tale
The Cook's Tale
The Franklin's Tale
The Friar's Tale
The Knight's Tale
The Manciple's Tale
The Man of Law's Tale
The Tale of Melibee
The Merchant's Tale
The Miller's Tale
The Monk's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
The Parson's Tale
The Physician's Tale
The Prioress's Tale
The Reeve's Tale
The Second Nun's Tale
The Shipman's Tale
The Squire's Tale
The Summoner's Tale
The Tale of Sir Thopas
The Wife of Bath's Tale

Poems

BD            The Book of the Duchess
HF            The House of Fame
LGW         The Legend of Good Women
PF            The Parliament of Fowls
TC            Troilus and Criseyde

Literary Works by other Authors

Abbreviation Work Author Genre

Aen.
Ag.
Ant.
Bac.
Beo.
Can.
Dec.
DJ
DQ
Eum.
FQ
Gil.
GT
Hept.
Hip.
Il.
Inf.
LB
Lys.
MD
Med.
Ms.
Nib.
Od.
OR
Or.
OT
Par.
PL
Prel.
Purg.
Rep.
SA
SGGK
Sym.
Tar.

         Aenid
         Agamemnon
         Antigone
         Bacchae
         Beowulf
         Candide
         Decameron
         Don Juan
         Don Quixote
         Eumenides
        The Fairie Queene
         Epic of Gilgamesh
        Gulliver's Travels
        Heptameron
        Hippolyta
         Iliad
        Inferno
        Lyrical Ballads
        Lysistrata
        Moby Dick
        Medea
        Le misanthrope
        Nibelungenlied
        Odyssey
        Oedipus Rex
        Orestia
        Oedipus Tyrannus
        Paradiso
        Paradise Lost
        The Prelude
        Purgatorio
        Republic
        Samson Agonistes
        Sir Gawain and the Green
        Symposium
        Tartuffe

Virgil
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides

Voltaire
Boccaccio
Byron
Cervantes
Aeschylus
Spenser

Swift
de Navarre
Euripides
Homer
Dante
Wordsworth
Aristophanes
Melville
Euripides
Moliere

Homer
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Dante
Milton
Wordsworth
Dante
Plato
Milton
Knight
Plato
Moliere

poetry, epic
drama, tragedy
drama, tragedy
drama, tragedy
poetry, epic
prose, novella
poetry/prose, novel
poetry, mock epic
novel
drama, tragedy
poetry, lyric
poetry, epic
prose, satire
prose, novellas
drama, tragedy
poetry, epic
poetry, epic
poetry, lyric
drama, comedy
prose, novel
drama, tragedy
drama, comedy
poetry, epic
poetry, epic
drama, tragedy (also known as Oedipus Tyrannus - OT)
drama, tragedy
drama, tragedy (also known as Oedipus Rex - OR)
poetry, epic
poetry, epic
poetry, lyric
poetry, epic
prose, Socratic dialogue
poetry, epic
poetry, lyric
prose, Socratic dialogue
drama, comedy

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Margaret L. Benner
benner@towson.edu