The English Renaissance

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

The course will enable the students to:

  • Understand and classify 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
14.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Ben Jonson                                                                  

Every Man in His Humour (from Macmillan 2010)

14.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

 

Christopher Marlowe                                             

Edward, the Second

11.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

William Shakespeare                                            

Macbeth

11.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Francis Bacon                                                            

Of Studies

Of Superstition

Of Youth and Age

Of Friendship

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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. 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.

Academic Year: 
2021-2022