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Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.74 � 2,739,198 ratings � published 1597
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.94 � 563,026 ratings � published 1595
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.84 � 365,583 ratings � published 1513
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 156 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.91 � 224,520 ratings � published 2009
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.06 � 253,128 ratings � published 1598
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.78 � 197,513 ratings � published 1596
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.71 � 213,706 ratings � published 1599
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.55 � 79,828 ratings � published 1516
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.74 � 177,301 ratings � published 1593
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
by (shelved 98 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.09 � 506,957 ratings � published 2001
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
by (shelved 94 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.30 � 101,224 ratings � published 2012
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.80 � 70,502 ratings � published 1588
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.91 � 56,748 ratings � published 1593
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.81 � 86,732 ratings � published 1599
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.19 � 302,047 ratings � published 2020
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.02 � 1,009,796 ratings � published 1601
Richard II (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.77 � 26,709 ratings � published 1595
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.68 � 33,039 ratings � published 1594
The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)
by (shelved 64 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.91 � 93,925 ratings � published 2006
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.65 � 15,879 ratings � published 1532
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.80 � 32,220 ratings � published 1597
Innocent Traitor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.97 � 34,501 ratings � published 2006
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.06 � 59,395 ratings � published 2003
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.58 � 17,057 ratings � published 1590
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.23 � 21,298 ratings � published 1580
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.83 � 19,438 ratings � published 1508
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.79 � 25,723 ratings � published 2006
The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.72 � 33,274 ratings � published 1594
The Constant Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #6)
by (shelved 53 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.93 � 165,439 ratings � published 2005
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.85 � 51,923 ratings � published 1599
The Virgin's Lover (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)
by (shelved 49 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.74 � 56,540 ratings � published 2004
The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.40 � 43,904 ratings � published 2020
The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #13)
by (shelved 45 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.88 � 99,503 ratings � published 2003
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.12 � 71,675 ratings � published 1992
Love's Labour's Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.52 � 15,422 ratings � published 1598
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.01 � 180,944 ratings � published 2022
The Last Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.06 � 11,651 ratings � published 2006
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.50 � 31,734 ratings � published 1554
The Other Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #16)
by (shelved 41 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.70 � 48,754 ratings � published 2008
The Lady Elizabeth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.99 � 28,217 ratings � published 2008
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.39 � 16,598 ratings � published 1594
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.03 � 32,560 ratings � published 1998
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.99 � 10,611 ratings � published 2010
Henry IV, Part Two (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.77 � 20,710 ratings � published 1598
The Game of Kings (The Lymond Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.14 � 9,916 ratings � published 1961
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.89 � 423,469 ratings � published 1603
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.89 � 977,904 ratings � published 1623
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.98 � 14,076 ratings � published 2009
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.26 � 28,624 ratings � published 1986
Sacred Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.79 � 13,316 ratings � published 2008
“No matter who you were in sixteenth-century Europe, you could be sure of two things: you would be lucky to reach fifty years of age, and you could expect a life of discomfort and pain. Old age tires the body by thirty-five, Erasmus lamented, but half the population did not live beyond the age of twenty. There were doctors and there was medicine, but there does not seem to have been a great deal of healing. Anyone who could afford to seek a doctor's aid did so eagerly, but the doctor was as likely to maim or kill as to cure. His potions were usually noxious and sometimes fatal—but they could not have been as terrible and traumatic as the contemporary surgical methods. The surgeon and the Inquisitor differed only in their motivation: otherwise, their batteries of knives, saws, and tongs for slicing, piercing, burning, and amputating were barely distinguishable. Without any anesthetic other than strong liquor, an operation was as bad as the torments of hell.”
― The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
― The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
“Once when I asked a chieftain in a certain province if he was a Christian, he said "I am not yet quite one, but I am making a beginning." I asked him what he knew of being Christian, and he said: "I know how to swear to God, and play cards a bit, and I am beginning to steal.”
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