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The English Renaissance
The course will enable the students to:
- Understand the modes and conventions of the age and will learn the greatness of the canonical works.
- Gain an insight into the philosophy of Shakespeare and get acquainted with the creative imagination and techniques of Elizabethan works
- Read and appreciate the works of Shakespeare critically
Ben Jonson
Every Man in His Humour (from Macmillan 2010)
Christopher Marlowe
Edward, the Second
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
Francis Bacon
Of Studies
Of Superstition
Of Youth and Age
Of Friendship
Edmund Spenser
One day I wrote her name upon the strand
(from Amoretti)
Prothalamion
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.