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From printing to the steam engine (1439-1698). The arrival of movable type printing in Europe made books plentiful, and helped standardize the languages that used it. Much more survives from this period than from earlier.
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* [[William Shakespeare]], [[Christopher Marlowe]] and other authors of Elizabethan/Jacobean drama.
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* The works of [[Jonathan Swift]].
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* ''[[Don Quixote]]'' by Cervantes.
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* The Italian [[Commedia Dell'Arte]] farces, establishing many comedy-related tropes we enjoy to this day.
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* ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' by John Milton.
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* ''[[Journey to the West]]'', the great Chinese epic.
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* ''[[The Rape Of The Lock]],'' Alexander Pope's great mock-heroic epic satire of the most infamous haircut of English literature.
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* The plays of Tāng Xiǎnzǔ (see ''[[The Peony Pavilion]]'')
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* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Some of Shakespeare's plays, such as ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', displaced older versions of the same stories.
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* [[All Part of the Show]]: 17th-century urban legend.
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* [[All That Glitters]]: Shakespeare's ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', which implies that it was already an old aesop.
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* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Christopher Marlowe]]'s ''[[Doctor Faustus]]''.
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* [[Aside Comment]]: [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] and contemporaries.
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* [[Atlas Pose]]: The, um, Atlas.
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* [[A Wizard Did It]]: ''[[Don Quixote]]'' pokes fun at other works that use the trope in that the [[Ascended Fanboy|title character]] always ascribes things going sideways to "some cursed enchanter". ''[[The Tempest]]'' plays it straight, putting essentially the entire plot down to Prospero's magical machinations.
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* [[The Bluebeard]]: European literary folktale by Charles Perrault, 1697.
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* [[Bluffing the Murderer]]: The play within the play in ''Hamlet''.
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* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]: Polonius's list of genres in ''Hamlet''.
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* [[Bromantic Foil]]: Mercutio of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''.
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* [[Cargo Envy]]: In a famous line from ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', Romeo sees Juliet resting her head on her hand, and wishes he was a glove on that hand.
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* [[The Chessmaster]] (using actual chess motifs): Iago in ''[[Othello]]''.
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* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: ''[[The Comedy of Errors]]'' by Shakespeare.
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* [[Counter Zany]]: [[Commedia Dell'Arte]], and [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''
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* [[Cult Classic]]: Scots poet [[Robert Burns]] and his [[wikipedia:Burns supper|annual supper]].
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* [[Deal with the Devil]]: ''Historia von D. Johan. Fausten dem weitbeschreyten Zauberer und Schwartzkünstler'', 1587; may be older.
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* [[Detect Evil]]: Shakespeare's ''[[Macbeth]]''.
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* [[Diamonds in the Buff]]: Popular in 16th Century French art.
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* [[Disorganized Outline Speech]]: ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''.
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* [[Epistolary Novel]]: Existed in the 1600s but became popular with ''[[Pamela]]'', 1740.
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* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: ''[[Julius Caesar (theatre)|Julius Caesar]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]], obviously.
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* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: Edmund in ''King Lear''.
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* [[Exact Eavesdropping]]: Appears to be at least this old; Shakespeare subverted it in ''Hamlet'' and ''Othello'', and invoked it twice in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''.
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* [[Gender Flip]]: Shakespeare's ''King Lear'' was based loosely on the story of Clovis Merovingian who, in the early 6th century, divided up France among his three ''sons'' for them to rule equally.
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* [[The Ghost]]: Rosaline in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', Angelo and Marcus Luccios in ''Othello'', and Dulcinea in ''[[Don Quixote]]''.
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* [[Godiva Hair]]: Botticelli's 1486 painting ''The Birth of Venus'', if not earlier with Lady Godiva herself.
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* [[Humble Pie]]: Called umble pie in the 15th and 16th century.
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* [[I Am Spartacus]]: ''Fuente Ovejuna'' by Lope de Vega
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* [[I Banged Your Mom]]: Shakespeare's ''[[Titus Andronicus (theatre)|Titus Andronicus]]''
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* [[Impeded Messenger]]: Shakespeare's ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''.
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* [[In Another Man's Shoes]]: Shakespeare's ''[[Henry V]]''.
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* [[In My Language, That Sounds Like...]]: Shakespeare's ''[[Henry V]]'', when Henry is trying to woo Princess Katharine of France. The English words "foot" and "gown" sound a lot like the French for "fuck" (''foutre'') and "cunt" (''con''). (Helped along by poor pronunciation in the second case.)
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* [[Joker Jury]]: In Vanity Fair in ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress|The Pilgrims Progress]]''
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* [[Jossed]]: Cervantes disproved all the non-canonical novels written by other author(s) featuring his character Don Quixote, going as far as to have the characters in the canonical book read the others and prove them as inaccurate.
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* [[Last Villain Stand]]: Shakespeare's ''[[Macbeth]]'', with the protagonist's last stand.
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* [[Liberty Over Prosperity]]: First found in ''[[Paradise Lost]]'': Satan would rather reign in [[Hell]] than serve in [[Heaven]].
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* [[Loan Shark]]: Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice''
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* [[Loser Has Your Back]]: Happens to the protagonist in the morality play ''Everyman''.
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* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Shakespeare's ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream|A Midsummer Nights Dream]]'' and ''[[Twelfth Night]]''
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* [[Mad Scientist|Mad Alchemist]]: The precourser to the modern mad scientist.
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* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]] (The "mad scientist is good" variant): Shakespeare's ''[[The Tempest]]'', 1611, even though Prospero is a sorcerer, not a scientist.
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* [[Magically-Binding Contract]]: Faust's contract with Mephistopheles has to be signed with blood, and can't be broken.
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* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: The eponymous character of Shakespeare's ''[[Richard III]]''. [[Satan]] in ''[[Paradise Lost]]''.
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* [[Malaproper]]: Several Shakespheare comedies.
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* [[Mistimed Revival]]: ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''
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* [[More Than Mind Control]]: ''The Faerie Queene,'' ''Pilgrim's Progress''
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* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Many of [[Shakespeare]]'s plays, if not earlier.
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* [[Out, Damned Spot!]]: ''[[Macbeth]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]].
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* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Gratiano's repeated ironic echoes of Shylock at the climax of the court scene in ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]''.
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* [[The Peeping Tom]]: The folk legend of Lady Godiva, in a version from the 17th century.
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* [[Pineal Weirdness]]: Descartes' ''Treatise of Man'', 1629
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* [[Poe's Law]]: ''Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum'', 1515-1517
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* [[Pose of Silence]]: Shakespearean stage production technique.
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* [[Potty Emergency]]: ''[[Don Quixote]]'' features this joke.
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* [[Puss in Boots]]: The literary folktale of the same name by Charles Perrault, 1695.
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* [[Rash Equilibrium]]: Shakespeare's ''Measure for Measure''
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* [[Recursive Crossdressing]]: Shakespearean comedy, especially ''As You Like It''.
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* [[Recursive Canon]]: ''[[Hamlet]]'' refers to ''[[Julius Caesar (theatre)|Julius Caesar]]'' as a play.
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* [[Red Herring]]: Actual red herrings used in hunting.
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* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[King Lear]]'', and ''Henry V''
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* [[Spontaneous Human Combustion]]: The oldest known report of such an incident allegedly occurring dates back to 1654, briefly detailing an incident believed to have occurred sometime between 1468 and 1503.
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* [[A Storm Is Coming]]: ''Macbeth''
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* [[Wedding Day]]: Shakespeare's ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'', or earlier.
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* [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve]]: "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]", amongst others.
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* [[Woolseyism]]: The King James translation of ''[[The Bible]]'' uses this method in many passages. More modern translations such as the New International Version have preserved the most famous ones in only slightly modernized form.
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