Chaucer to the Elizabethans

Paper Code: 
24ENG122
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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 and develop an understanding of Elizabethan poetry and the origin and growth of British Drama.

 

13.00
Unit I: 

Geoffrey Chaucer                              

The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

 

13.00
Unit II: 

Edmund Spenser                              

Epithalamion

 

10.00
Unit III: 

Philip Sidney                                    

He Seeks Inspiration…

The Sleepless Lover

With How Sad…

My True Love

Because I…

I Never…           

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

Christopher Marlowe                         

Dr. Faustus

 

12.00
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.

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdrBrjaS7dg (Chaucer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLD2t06cQic (Spencer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMHInvGoiDA (Marlowe)

 

Journals:

Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance

English Literary Renaissance

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO7. Examine the tradition of English literature from the 14th to the 16th century

CO8. Develop a better understanding of Renaissance Humanism that provides the basis for the texts suggested

CO9. Assess the prescribed poems and plays in the larger socio-political and religious contexts of the time

CO10. Appraise the theme, structure, style and other literary features to better critique British poetry and drama

CO11.  Formulate an understanding of different genres and critique the artistic, aesthetic and cultural influence that shaped the literature of the age

CO12. Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.