English syllabus - Gauhati University
English syllabus - Gauhati University English syllabus - Gauhati University
4PAPER 2Medieval and Renaissance: Poetry and PlaysMarks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8In this paper students will study poetry and drama that emerged against the literary and historicalcontexts studied in the previous paper. There will be 4 questions (4x 14=56) that may be both textualand relate to the period, and 4 questions (4x6=24) that will examine the student’s ability to identify andelaborate on lines and passages from the starred texts.Section I: Poems(2x14 + 2x6) Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400): Prologue to The Canterbury Tales; Introduction*, Portraitsof the Knight*, the Squire* and the Wife of Bath. Edmund Spenser (1552-99): Sonnets from Amoretti: (a) What guyle is this ...;(b) TheMerry Cuckow, messenger of Spring; The Faerie Queene,Book 3,Canto 3: The Visit to Merlin 1-10. Henry Howard (1517-1547): The Means to Attain a Happy Life Michael Drayton: (1563-1631) Love's Farewell William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnets 30*, 65*, John Donne (1572-1631): Sweetest Love I do not go* / Thou Hast made me. Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?): Sweetest love, return again*. Katharine Philips (1632-1664): Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest LucasiaSection II: Plays(2x14 + 2x6) Anonymous: Everyman (performed c.1485) Christopher Marlowe (1564-93): Dr. Faustus* William Shakespeare (1564-1616): OthelloRecommended Reading:Beadle, Richard. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press,1994Bradbrook M. C., Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy, Cambridge: CUP, 1960Braunmuller, A. R. & Michael Hattaway, The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama.Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003
5Gurr, Andrew, The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642, Cambridge: CUP, 1992Potter, Robert A. The English Morality Play: Origins History and Influence of a Dramatic Tradition. London :Routledge& Kegan Paul, 1975Preminger, Alex & Terry V. F. Brogan, New Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry and Poetics.New York: M J FBooks, 1996Styan, J. L. Drama, Stage and Audience. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1975Wells, Stanley W. & Margreta De Grazia The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. Cambridge: CambridgeUniv. Press, 2001
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4PAPER 2Medieval and Renaissance: Poetry and PlaysMarks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8In this paper students will study poetry and drama that emerged against the literary and historicalcontexts studied in the previous paper. There will be 4 questions (4x 14=56) that may be both textualand relate to the period, and 4 questions (4x6=24) that will examine the student’s ability to identify andelaborate on lines and passages from the starred texts.Section I: Poems(2x14 + 2x6) Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400): Prologue to The Canterbury Tales; Introduction*, Portraitsof the Knight*, the Squire* and the Wife of Bath. Edmund Spenser (1552-99): Sonnets from Amoretti: (a) What guyle is this ...;(b) TheMerry Cuckow, messenger of Spring; The Faerie Queene,Book 3,Canto 3: The Visit to Merlin 1-10. Henry Howard (1517-1547): The Means to Attain a Happy Life Michael Drayton: (1563-1631) Love's Farewell William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnets 30*, 65*, John Donne (1572-1631): Sweetest Love I do not go* / Thou Hast made me. Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?): Sweetest love, return again*. Katharine Philips (1632-1664): Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest LucasiaSection II: Plays(2x14 + 2x6) Anonymous: Everyman (performed c.1485) Christopher Marlowe (1564-93): Dr. Faustus* William Shakespeare (1564-1616): OthelloRecommended Reading:Beadle, Richard. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval <strong>English</strong> Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press,1994Bradbrook M. C., Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy, Cambridge: CUP, 1960Braunmuller, A. R. & Michael Hattaway, The Cambridge Companion to <strong>English</strong> Renaissance Drama.Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003
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