17th century

Presents the classic play about an unattractive swordsman who falls in love with a beautiful woman but courts her for a handsome but slow-witted suitor; and contains a timeline of significant events, outline of themes and plots, explanatory notes, and critical analysis.

Covers political and religious development as well as economic, social and intellectual history during the reign of the Stuarts in England from 1603-1714.

The life of the well-known English poet and educator set against the social life and historic events of the seventeenth century.

In late seventeenth-century London a young boy who wants to be a stonecutter helps in the rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral.

In Paris with his parents to sell family heirlooms, fourteen-year-old Greg Rich suddenly finds himself four hundred years in the past, and is aided by boys who will one day be known as "The Three Musketeers.".

Various characters, including a waterman, an actor, a gallant, and an apple seller, from Shakespeare's London describe the Globe Theatre from their own perspective.

After escaping religious persecution in France in 1686, a young Huguenot boy and his parents travel on a slave ship to West Africa, then to the Caribbean, and finally to New York, where they help found the town of New Rochelle.

Examines the history, culture, and society of Elizabethan England, and looks at the life and writings of William Shakespeare within the context of the time in which he lived.

Presents seventeenth-century author Daniel Defoe's fictionalized account of what it was like to live in London in 1665 when the city was in the grip of plague.