From Medieval Period to the Eighteenth Century

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• Prof. Cecilia H.C. Liu: Medieval English Literature & Culture, Spring 2002 Dr. Lyn Scott: Medieval Drama and Theatre Studies Course, Fall 2000 BACKGROUNDS:  ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD:Early History of England, Religion, Anglo-Saxon Poetry Middle English Genres, Misogynic Literature, Courtly love, The mysterious Pentangle

  Beowulf    Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400): The Canterbury Tales  "The Wife of Bath Prologue & Tale"  (student work) "The Nun's Priest's Tale"  (student work) "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale"(student work)

  Piers Plowman  254-59; 263-83

  Piers Plowman  (student work)

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1357-1400)  Part I and II

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knnight  (student work)

  Medieval English Drama The Feast of Corpus Christi and Corpus Christi plays Second Shepherd's Play Everyman

  Medieval Plays: The Chester Play of Noah's Flood  (student work) The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play  (student work) Everyman (after 1485)  (student work)

  Medieval English Ballads and Lyrics

  Morte D'arthur

  Morte Darthur   (student work)

THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY :

Thomas More: Utopia

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586): Astrophil & Stella 1,2,5,31,39,72,108

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599): The Faerie Queene Book 1, Cantos 1-3, 11-12

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593): The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnets As You like It

THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY:

Metaphysical Poetry and Cavalier Poetry

John Donne (1572-1631): "The Good-Morrow;" "Song;" "The Flea;" "The Canonization;"  "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning;"  Holy sonnets# 10, 14; "A Hymn to God the Father;" "Mediation 17"

Ben Jonson (1572-1637): Volpone, or The Fox "To My Book;" "To John Donne;" "On My First Son;"  "Song: To Celia;"  "To the Memory of Shakespeare"

George Herbert (1593-1633): "The Altar;" "Easter Wings;" "The Collar;" "The Pulley"

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678): "To His Coy Mistress;" "The Definition of Love;" "The Garden"

Robert Herrick (1591-1674): "Corinna's Going A-Maying"

John Milton (1608-1674): "Lycidas;" Selections from Paradise Lost

THE RESTORATION

AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

John Dryden (1631-1700): "Mac Flecknoe;" "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"

John Bunyan (1628-1688): "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678)

William Congreve (1670-1729): The Way of the World

Daniel Defoe (1660-1745): Moll Flanders (1722)

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Gulliver's Travels "A Modest Proposal"

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): "The Rape of the Lock"

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Rasselas