Chaucer to the Elizabethans

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

• Interpret the literary age, the representative authors and their individual style
• Examine the poetic forms, prose writings and the dramatic conventions of the time
•  Develop an understanding of Elizabethan poetry and the origin and growth of British Drama

Course Outcomes -

The students will:

• Value the tradition of English literature from the 14th to the 16th century
• Develop a better understanding of Renaissance Humanism that provides the basis for the texts suggested
• Examine the poems and plays in the larger socio-political  and religious contexts of the time
• Develop an understanding of  theme, structure , style and other literary features to better critique  British poetry and drama