GBK 431--The Rise of the Individual: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

eadings in Shakespeare, Cervantes, Locke, Swift, Moliere, Kant, Jefferson, and others.

• Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681)

  Life is a Dream (1635)

  Calderon, Pedro de la Barca. Life is a Dream. Barrons Educational Series, 1958. (Special Order)

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  Calderon, Pedro de la Barca. Life is a Dream. Edited by William-Alan Landes. Translated by Fitzgerald. Players Press, 1993. (Special Order)

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• Miquel de Cervantes Saaverda (1547-1616)

  Don Quixote (Pt. 1: 1605, Pt. 2: 1615)

  Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. Adventures of Don Quixote. Penguin Classics. Penguin USA, 1988.

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  Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. Don Quixote De La Mancha. Edited by E.C. Riley. Translated by Jarvis. The World's Classics. Oxford University Press, 1992.

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  Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. Don Quixote De La Mancha. New American Library, 1987.

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  Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. Don Quixote De La Mancha. Signet Classics. New American Library, 1990.

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• Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755-1804), and John Jay (1745-1829), and James Madison (1751-1836)

  The Federalist Papers (1788)

  Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist Papers. Edited by Garry Wills. Bantam Classics. Bantam Books, 1989.

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  Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist Papers. Penguin Classics. Penguin USA, 1987.

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  Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist Papers : Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay. Edited by Clinton L. Rossiter. New American Library, 1992.

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• David Hume (1711-1776)

  Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)

  Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Great Books in Philosophy. Prometheus Books, 1988.

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  Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Paul Carus Student Editions. Open Court Publishing Company, 1988.

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• Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

  Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785)

  Kant, Immanuel. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Translated by T. Abbott. Great Books in Philosophy. Prometheus Books, 1987.

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  Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Harpercollins, 1964.

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• John Locke (1632-1704)

  Second Treatise on Government (1690)

  Locke, John. The Second Treatise on Civil Government. Great Books in Philosophy. Prometheus Books, 1986.

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  Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. 3d/Stdnt ed. Edited by Laslett Peter. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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  Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie. Everyman's Library. Everymans Library, 1994.

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• Moliere (aka. Jean Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673)

  Tartuffe (1664)

  Moliere. Tartuffe. Harcourt Brace, 1968.

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  Moliere. Tartuffe and Other Plays. New American Library, 1993.

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• William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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  Shakespeare, William. The Complete Pelican Shakespeare. Edited by Alfred Harbage. Viking Press, 1974.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Outlet, 1992.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare : The Complete Works. Edited by Howard Staunton. Grammercy, 1996.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Riverside Shakespeare. 2d ed.. Edited by J. J. M. Tobin, Herschel Baker, and G. Blakemore Evans. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.

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  Shakespeare, William. William Shakespeare : The Complete Works. Grammercy, 1993.

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  Hamlet (1603)

  Shakespeare, William. Four Tragedies : Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacBeth. Edited by David Bevington. Bantam Classics. Bantam Books, 1988.

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  Shakespeare, William. Four Great Tragedies : Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, MacBeth. Pocket Books, 1988.

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  Shakespeare, William. Four Great Tragedies : Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacBeth. New American Library, 1989.

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  Shakespeare, William. Four Tragedies : Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacBeth. Penguin Classics. Penguin USA, 1995.

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  Henry IV, Part One (1597)

  Shakespeare, William. First Part of King Henry IV. New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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  Shakespeare, William. Four Histories : Richard Ii/Henry Iv, Part One/Henry Iv, Part Two/Henry V. Penguin Classics. Penguin USA, 1995.

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  Shakespeare, William. Henry Iv, Part I. W W Norton & Company, 1985.

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  Shakespeare, William. Henry Iv, Part I. Edited by David Bevington. Bantam Classics. Bantam Books, 1988.

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  Henry V (1599)

  Shakespeare, William. Four Histories : Richard Ii/Henry Iv, Part One/Henry Iv, Part Two/Henry V. Penguin Classics. Penguin USA, 1995.

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  Shakespeare, William. Henry V. Edited by David Bevington. Bantam Classics. Bantam Books, 1988.

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  Shakespeare, William. Henry V. New Penguin Shakespeare. Viking Press, 1981.

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  Shakespeare, William. Henry V. Edited by T.W. Craik. The Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995.

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• Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

  Gulliver's Travels (1726)

  Swift, Johnathan. Gulliver's Travels. Signet Classics. New American Library, 1985.

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  Swift, Johnathan. Gulliver's Travels. Everymans Library, 1992.

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  Swift, Johnathan. Gulliver's Travels. Pocket Books, 1996.

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  Swift, Johnathan. Gulliver's Travels. Penguin Classics. Penguin USA, 1987.

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• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

  Democracy in America (Vol. 1: 1835, Vol. 2: 1840)

  de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. Translated by George Lawerence. Edited by J. P. Mayer. HarperCollins, 1988.

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  de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. New American Library, 1991.

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