The Course will enable the students to analyze the representative writers for their thematic concerns within the historical and cultural contexts of the chosen texts and critically appreciate the genres of poetry and drama.
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...
John Donne
The Sunne Rising
Batter My Heart
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
The Twelfth Night
Suggested Reference Books:
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... character-analysis.html
https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/shakespeares- plays/twelfth-night/
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
The students will: CO1.Examine 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 CO5. Evaluate and comprehend the literary tradition of England through the medieval and Renaissance to the Elizabethan period. |
CO6.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.