women
in Aztec culture 196
in Colonial America 195
education of 199–200
in England 135, 139
in France 144–145, 224–225, 264
in Japan 131
in literature, pre-14th century 23–24
in Renaissance 145
in Russia 33
in Spanish America 66
in United States 199–200
Women Will be Women (Lessing) 157
The Wonders of the Invisible World (Mather) 179
Wong, Timothy 310
Wood, Nigel 279
The Wood of the Woods (Bacon) 15
Woolman, John 307
Wordsworth, William 17, 44, 84
The World, or Treatise on Light (Descartes) 72–73
The World as Will and Representation
(Schopenhauer) 262
“Wo to Drunkards” (Mather) 180
The Would-be Gentleman (Le Bourgeois
Gentilhomme; Molière) 190
Wright, Susanna 195
“Writing Down What I See” (Yuan Hungdao)
312
Wu Chengen (Wu Ch`eng-en; Wu Chen-en) 41,
125, 307–310, 308–310
Wu Ching-Tzu (Wong) 310
Wu Jingzi (Wu Ching-tzu) 41, 310
Wulf, Karin A. 195
Wu school 136
Wu-sheng xi (Wu-sheng hsi; Silent Operas; Li Yu)
158
Wyatt, Alysson 309
Wyatt, Thomas 274
Wycherley, William 58, 59, 228
Wyclif, John. See Wycliffe, John
Wycliffe, John 116, 310–311
X
Xenophon 4, 97, 115
Xhuwan Q`Anil. See Komam Q`Anil, Epic of
Xian-qing ou-ji (Hsien ch’ing ou-chi; Random
Ventures in Idleness; Li Yu) 158–159
Xiao hu lei (Hsiao-hu lei; The Little Thunderclap;
Kong Shangren) 141
Xiao Xiaosheng (Hsiao-hsiaosheng) 41
Ximénez, Don Francisco 230
Xiyouji (Hsi Yu Chi; The Journey to the West; Wu
Chengen) 125
xochicuicatl (“flower songs”) 201–202, 202–204
Y
Yamaguchi Sodo¯ 110
Yamamoto Eizo. See Ryokan
“Ycuic Axayacatzin, Mexico Tlatohuani”
(Axayacatl) 13
The Year of My Life (Kobayashi Issa). See Oragu
Haru
The Year 2440 (Mercier) 293
Yedang. See Kim Jung Hee
“Yisaeng kyujang cho˘n” (Student Yi Peers Over
the Wall; Kim Shi-sup) 136
Yi Song-gye 129
Yi Sunghun 130
Yi Yi. See Lee Yul Kok
Yongbi eocheon ga (Songs of Flying Dragons; Se-
jong) 264–265
York cycle 66
Yoshimitsu (shogun) 313
Yoshimochi (shogun) 313
Yoshinori (shogun) 314
Young, John and Alex Dent 269
Young Man’s Pocket Companion (Richardson). See
The Apprentice’s Vade Mecum
The Young Scholar (Lessing) 157
Yuan Hungdao (Yüan Hung-tao) 312
Yuan Zhongdo (Yüan Chung-tao) 312
Yuan Zongdao (Yüan Tsung-tao) 312
yugen 205
Yulgok Chip (Lee Yul Kok) 152
Z
Zadig, ou la Destinée (Voltaire) 298
Zaïde (Lafayette et al.) 147
Zaïre (Voltaire) 298
Zarucchi, Jeanne Morgan 221
Zeami Motokiyo (Motokiyo Kanze) 143, 313–314
Zeami Motomasa 314
Zeami’s Style (Hare) 313
Zen Buddhism 18, 256
Zenge, Wilhelmine von 137
Zeydel, Edwin 30
Zhitie (Life; Avvakum) 12
Zhuangzi 152
zhuanji 282
Zhuskovskomu, V. A. 233
Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi) 129
Zilch, Elizabeth 160
Zipa (Chibcha ruler) 124
The Zoo (Rej) 243
Zygmunt August (king of Poland) 140
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