British Poetry & Drama– 14-17th Century

Paper Code: 
CENG 111
Credits: 
06
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The students will:

CO1.  Understand the representative writers of the age and the literary and stylistic features of their writings, for reflecting on a wide range of thematic concerns

CO2.  Appreciate the genres of poetry and drama in terms of themes, use of literary devices, forms and techniques

CO3.  Analyse and critique the texts to bring out the religious and socio-cultural role of the writer in society

CO4. Theorize the ideas of Renaissance humanism underlying the prescribed texts 

18.00
Unit I: 

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wife of Bath’s Prologue

 

Edmund Spenser’s Sonnets from Amoretti

Sonnet LXVII Like as a huntsman...

Sonnet LVII Sweet warrior...

Sonnet LXXV One day I wrote her name...

 

18.00
Unit II: 

John Donne

The Sunne Rising

Batter My Heart

Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

 

18.00
Unit III: 

Christopher Marlowe

 Doctor Faustus

 

18.00
Unit IV: 

William Shakespeare

 Macbeth

 

18.00
Unit V: 

William Shakespeare

The Twelfth Night

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Ford, Boris. From Donne to Marvell. Penguin Books, 1990.

Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poets.  Penguin Classics, 1960.

MacMillan, Scott, ed. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Comedy. W.W. Norton and Company, 1997.

Owen, Susan J, ed. A Companion to Restoration Drama.  Blackwell Publications, 2001.

Shawcross, John Ted. John Milton: The Critical Heritage. Routledge,2010.

Willmott, Richard. Metaphysical Poetry. CUP, 2002.

 

E-Resources including links:

https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-wife-of-bath-in-the-canterbury-tale...

https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/shakespea...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks2-macbeth/zdt42sg

https://www.bl.uk/works/doctor-faustus

 

Reference Journals:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329586220_Shakespeare_for_article

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/802291.pdf

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024