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The English Renaissance [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 112
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 

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

 

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: 

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: 
2020-2021 [2]

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[2] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2020-2021