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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

The works in this challenge are derived from an appendix in the most recent version of TCOCTEL (2011). The appendix is a chronology of important literary works in English interspersed with seminal works in other languages.
This is a concise (duh!) version of Scarlett's 2020 challenge at the link. It may be more palatable in length for many readers. The source book used in this case was also published a few years later. As such, there are many different extra books on this list, throughout the time span covered (c.1000 to 2011).
For some works, e.g. the Qur'an, the entry's date corresponds to the first translation into English.
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Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf (Anonymous)
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Arthurian Chronicles: Roman De Brut (Wace)
Arthurian Chronicles: Roman De Brut (Wace)
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The Owl and the Nightingale (Anonymous)
The Owl and the Nightingale (Anonymous)
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Brut (Layamon)
Brut (Layamon)
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Ancrene Wisse (Ancrene Riwle) (Anonymous)
Ancrene Wisse (Ancrene Riwle) (Anonymous)
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The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
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King Alisaunder (Anonymous)
King Alisaunder (Anonymous)
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Sir Orfeo (Anonymous)
Sir Orfeo (Anonymous)
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The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
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Piers Plowman (William Langland)
Piers Plowman (William Langland)
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Troilus and Criseyde (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Troilus and Criseyde (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience (Anonymous)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience (Anonymous)
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The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy (William Caxton)
The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy (William Caxton)
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The Book of Common Prayer (Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury)
The Book of Common Prayer (Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury)
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Songs and Sonnets (Tottel's Miscellany) (Various)
Songs and Sonnets (Tottel's Miscellany) (Various)
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Acts and Monuments (John Foxe)
Acts and Monuments (John Foxe)
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Holinshed's Chronicles (Raphael Holinshed)
Holinshed's Chronicles (Raphael Holinshed)
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The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)
The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)
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Tamburlaine (Christopher Marlowe)
Tamburlaine (Christopher Marlowe)
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The Old Arcadia (Philip Sidney)
The Old Arcadia (Philip Sidney)
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The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
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Venus and Adonis (William Shakespeare)
Venus and Adonis (William Shakespeare)
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Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
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The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
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Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
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As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
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Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
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Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
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Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello (William Shakespeare)
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Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
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King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
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MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
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Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare)
Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare)
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Shakespeare's Sonnets (William Shakespeare)
Shakespeare's Sonnets (William Shakespeare)
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The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare)
The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare)
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The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
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The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
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