The English Renaissance

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

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

  1. Understand and exhibit the religious, socio-intellectual and cultural ideologies prevalent in the age
  2. Develop an insight into the critical themes in the representative texts of the period
  3. Appreciate the genres of poetry and drama in terms of the socio-cultural contexts, use of literary devices, forms and techniques
  4.  Demonstrate an understanding of the Renaissance literary age and its characteristics
  5. Interpret styles of essays with reference to representative works by a specific author

 

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Writing assignments

 

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

Class test, Semester end examinations Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

 

14.00

Ben Jonson                                                   

Every Man in His Humour (from Macmillan 2010)

 

 

 

14.00

Christopher Marlowe                                  

Edward, the Second

 

11.00

William Shakespeare                                   

Macbeth

 

11.00

Francis Bacon                                              

Of Studies

Of Superstition

Of Youth and Age

Of Friendship

 

 

 

10.00

Edmund Spenser                                          

One day I wrote her name upon the strand 

(from Amoretti)

 

Prothalamion

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings :

 

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

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

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

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

Hadfield, Andrewand 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.

 

E-Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uxvtpEz5GRc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ms5wRzOmqG8

 

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