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