Chaucer to the Elizabethans

Paper Code: 
ENG 122
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 
The course will enable the students to:
• Get acquainted with the literary age, the representative authors and their individual style
• Get introduced to the poetic forms, prose writings and the dramatic conventions of the time 
 
Learning Outcomes -
The students will be able to:
• Acquire knowledge of the tradition of English literature from the 14th to the 16th century
• Gain a better understanding of Renaissance Humanism that provides the basis for the texts suggested 
• Appreciate the poems and plays in the larger socio-political  and religious contexts of the time
 
13.00
Unit I: 
Geoffrey Chaucer

The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

12.00
Unit II: 
Edmund Spenser

Epithalamion 

9.00
Unit III: 
Philip Sidney
He seeks Inspiration…
The Sleepless Lover
With how sad…
My True Love 
Sonnet Nos. LIV - Because I… and LXXIV -I Never…
12.00
Unit IV: 
Christopher Marlowe

Dr. Faustus

14.00
Unit V: 
Francis Bacon
Of Truth
Of Death
Of Revenge
Of Adversity
Of Parents
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Envy
Of Love
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
Chopra, D.K. Essays by Francis Bacon. Ratan Prakash Mandir, 1984.
Ford, Boris. The Age of Chaucer.  Atlantic,1994. 
Hamilton,A.C. Philip Sidney : A Study of His Life and Works.CUP, 2012.
Jump, O John.,et.al. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: A Selection of Critical Essays. Palgrave, 2007.  
Patrick, Riley. The Cambridge to ChristopherMarlowe. CUP, 2004. 
Piero, Biotani. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer.  CUP, 2003.
Academic Year: 
2020-2021