1. Seventeenth Century Literature
King James Bible of 1611 &
Francis Bacon’s Essays

2. Historical Background
Stuart Dynasty:
James I
Charles I
Charles II
James II
William III and Mary II
Queen Anne
English Revolution ( )
The Commonwealth ( )
The Restoration ( )
The Bill of Rights (1688)
The Constitutional Monarchy
Anne of England, oil on canvas attributed to Michael Dahl, c. 1690

3. The Rendering of Bible in England
Caedmon’ Paraphrase
Bede the Venerable
King Alfred the Great
John Wycliff (1324?-1384)
William Tyndale ( )
Miles Coverdale ( )
King James Bible in 1611
“The Father Reading the Bible to His Children,” engraving by P.F. Martenisie after a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

4. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Bacon the statesman Bacon the philosopher
Of Great Place
Bacon the philosopher
Bacon the essayist
Of Studies
A page from Novum Organum by Francis Bacon, 1620.

5. Assignment
Please read from p.168-p.189.