World Book Day of the 17th Century

World Book Day of the 17th Century

1700 - 1750

Hamlet

1600

Which queen was it written for?

The True Law of Free Monarchies

1603

author

• James VI of Scotland

• later James I of England

Don Quixote

Spain, 1606

Don Quixote

• Nobleman seeks adventure after reading stories about knights

• sets out with his servant, Sancho Panza

Multiple Choice

What is Sancho Panza riding?

Multiple Choice

When was Hamlet written?

• 1600

• 1601

• 1602

• 1603

MacBeth

The Scottish Play, 1606

The three witches

MacBeth

Sidereus Nuncius

Latin for Starry Messenger

First work published after looking through a telescope

Of Plymouth Plantation

Written between 1630 and 1651

It is the story of the people who left England and settled in America.

• William Bradford was the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachussets

They were so unhappy with England they first went to the Netherlands.

Meditation on First Philosophy

Rene Descartes, 1641

Very intelligent French thinker and mathematician

Multiple Choice

Where did some English Puritans go before they sailed to America (Plymouth)

• The Netherlands

• Sweden

• Legoland