British Poetry & Drama – 14-17th Century

Paper Code: 
24CENG111
Credits: 
06
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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.

 

19.00
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...

14.00
Unit II: 

John Donne

The Sunne Rising

Batter My Heart

Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

19.00
Unit III: 

Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus

19.00
Unit IV: 

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

19.00
Unit V: 

William Shakespeare

The Twelfth Night

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

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.