The English Renaissance

Paper Code: 
ENG 112
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the literary age and its salient features; the representative writers and their individual style

14.00
Unit I: 

Ben Jonson                                                                     

Every Man in His Humour (from Macmillan 2010)

14.00
Unit II: 

Christopher Marlowe                                             

Edward, the Second

11.00
Unit III: 

William Shakespeare                                              

Macbeth

11.00
Unit IV: 

Francis Bacon                                                               

Of Studies

Of Superstition

Of Youth and Age

Of Friendship

10.00
Unit V: 

Edmund Spenser                                                        

One day I wrote her name upon the strand 

(from Amoretti)

 

Prothalamion

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Baldick, Chris. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP, 2004.

Ford, Boris. Ed. The Age of Shakespeare – The Pelican Guide to English Literature                (Vol. 2). Penguin, 1969.

---. Ed. From Donne to Marvell – The Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. 3. Penguin, 1983.

G. Gordon. Shakespearean Comedy and Other Studies. OUP, 1944.

Hadfield, Andrew and A. L. Prescott. Ed. Edmund Spenser’s Poetry: Norton Critical Edition. Norton, 1969.

Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. George. G. Harrap & Co., 1936.

Stoll, E.E. Art and Artifice in Shakespeare. Macmillan, 1933.

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020