Please note, that when we say steam engine we mean useful steam engine. Not Heron's first century toy, and not the store. Notable works and authors from this time period include: * William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and other authors of Elizabethan/Jacobean drama. * The works of Jonathan Swift. * Don Quixote by Cervantes. * The Italian Commedia Dell'Arte farces, establishing many comedy-related tropes we enjoy to this day. * Paradise Lost by John Milton. * Journey to the West, the great Chinese epic. * The Rape Of The Lock, Alexander Pope's great mock-heroic epic satire of the most infamous haircut of English literature. * The plays of Tāng Xiǎnzǔ (see The Peony Pavilion)