The English Renaissance

Paper Code: 
ENG 112
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits. 

14.00

Ben Jonson                                                                     

Every Man in His Humour (from Macmillan 2010)

 

14.00

Christopher Marlowe                                             

Edward, the Second

 

10.00

William Shakespeare                                              

Hamlet

 

12.00

Francis Bacon                                                               

Of Studies

Of Superstition

Of Youth and Age

Of Friendship

 

10.00

Edmund Spenser                                                        

Fair proud

Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe, that on this day…

One day I wrote her name upon the strand 

(Sonnets from Amoretti)

Prothalamion

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

Ford, Boris. Ed. From Donne to Marvell – The Pelican Guide to English Literature.                Vol. 3. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983. Print.

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

G. Gordon. Shakespearean Comedy and Other Studies. London: Oxford, 1944. Print.

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

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

Stoll, E.E. Art and Artifice in Shakespeare. New York: Macmillan, 1933. Print.