The English Renaissance

Paper Code: 
ENG 112
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
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
Unit I: 

Ben Jonson

Every Man in His Humour (from Macmillan 2010)

14.00
Unit II: 

Christopher Marlowe

Edward, the Second

10.00
Unit III: 

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

12.00
Unit IV: 

Francis Bacon

Of Studies

Of Superstition

Of Youth and Age

Of Friendship

10.00
Unit V: 

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.
Academic Year: 
2017-2018