Authors and their works
‘Beowulf’
‘The Dream of the Rood’ (Vercelli text+Ruthwell cross)
‘Walldere’
‘Finnsburgh’
‘Brunanburgh’
‘The Battle of Maldon’
‘The Wanderer’
‘The Seafarer’
Caedmon: ‘Hymn to God’
‘Cynewulf’
‘Wulf and Eadwacer’
Bede: ‘Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum'
Pope Gregory: ‘Pastoral Care’
‘The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’ (-> ‘The Petersborough Chr.’) 891-1154
Aelfric: 2 series of homilies, ‘The Lives of the Saints’
Wulfstan: ‘Intutes of Polity’, ‘Sermo Lupi Ad Anglos’
‘The Domesday Book’
‘Obituary for William the Conqueror’
‘Chanson de Roland’, ‘Roelandslied’
Geoffrey of Monmouth: ‘History of the Kings of Britain’
Wace ‘Roman de Brut’
Layamon ‘Brut’
‘Vulgate Cycle’ (anon.)
Sir Thomas Malory: ‘La Morte d’Arthur’
Marie de France ‘Lanval’
Francois Villon (ballad as prayer)
John Wyclif, Nicholas of Hereford, John Purvey (Lollards)
‘Sir John Mandevilles Travels’
‘The Paston letters’
Geoffrey Chaucer: translates‘Roman de la Rose’, ‘Book of the duchess’
‘House of Fame’, ‘The book of good women’, ‘Troylus and Cressida’
‘The Canterbury Tales’
William Langland ‘Piers Plowman’
‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’
John Gower: ‘Le Miroir de l’homme’, ’Vox Clementis’, ‘Confession Amantis’
‘Mystère d’Adam’
‘The Castle of Perseverance’
‘Everyman’
Jacob Burckhardt: ‘The civilization of the Renaissance in Italy’
Baldassare Castiglione: ‘The Courtier’
Machiavelli: ‘Il Principe’
Copernicus: ‘On the revolution of the celestial spheres’
Montaigne: ‘Apology for Raymond Sebond’
John Donne: ‘An anatomy of the world’
William Tyndale: ‘Translation of the New Testament’
Miles Coverdale: ‘First English Bible’ => ‘The Great Bible’
The Geneva Bible 1560 – The Authorized King James Bible 1611
The Reims/Douai Bible 1582
Sir Thomas More: ‘Utopia’
Francesco Petrarca : ‘Una candida cerva’
Hans Wagner, Pietro Bembo, Jacopo Sannazarro, Henry Howard
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder: ‘Whoso list to hunt’
Thomas Watson: ‘Hekatompathia’
Sir Philip Sidney: ‘The Lady of the Lay’, ‘The countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia’,
‘Defense of Poesy’ (aka An Apologie for Poetrie)
Edmund Spenser: ‘A Theatre for Wordlings’, ‘The Shepheardes Calendar’,
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‘The Faerie Queene’, ‘Complaints’, ‘Colin Clout came home again’, ‘Amoretti’,
‘Epithalamion’ + ‘Prothalamion’, ‘A view on the present state of Ireland’
William Shakespeare (the poetry): ‘The Passionate Pilgrim’, ‘Venus and Adonis’, ‘Sonnets’,
‘Rape of Lucrece’, ‘The Phoenix and the Turtle’ (Robert Chester ‘Love’s Martyr’)
Jeffrey Whitney: ‘A choice of emblems and other devices’
Isabella Whitney: ‘A sweet nosegay’, ‘Will and Testament’, ‘A copy of a letter, lately
written in
meter by a yonge gentlewoman to her unconstant lover’
Mary (Sidney) Herbert: 150 Psalm Translations, Adaptation (Robert Garnier ‘Antoine’),
Translation (Philippe de Mornay ‘Discours de la vie et de l mort’), ‘Arcadia’,
‘To The Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney’
Elizabeth I: 24 speeches, 15 poems, 39 prayers, 103 letters, ‘The doubt of future foes’
John Foxe: ‘Acts and Monuments’
Sir Thomas Hoby: Translation (Baldassare Castiglione ‘The Courtier’)
John Northbrooke: ‘Treatise against Dicing, Dancing, Plays, Interludes & other idle
Pastimes’
The University Wits: Robert Green, Thomas Kyd, John Lyly, Christopher Marlowe
Robert Green: ‘A Grope’s worth of witt’
Thomas Kyd: Ur-Hamlet, ‘Cornelia’ (adaptation Robert Garnier ‘Cornelia’)
Christopher Marlowe: ‘Tamburlaine The Great Part 1+2’, ‘Dido, queen of Carthage’,
‘Massacre at Paris’, ‘The Jew of Malta’, ‘Dr.Faustus’
William Shakespeare (the plays): ‘Henry VI Part 1+2+3’, ‘The comedy of errors’,
‘The 2 gentlemen of Verona’, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’
= Start
Comedies: ‘Love’s labour lost’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘The Merchant of Venice’,
‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, ‘Twelfth Night’, ‘As you like it’ and ‘Much Ado about
Nothing’.
historical plays: ‘Richard II Part 1+2', ‘Henry IV Part 1+2’, ‘Henry V’
tragedies: ‘Romeo & Juliet’, ‘Julius Caesar’, ‘Hamlet’.
= Elizabethan
period.
tragedies: ‘Othello’, ‘King Lear’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘Anthony and Cleopatra’.
= Jacobean
era.
comedies/problem plays: ‘Measure for measure’, ‘All’s well that ends well’.
romances: ‘The Tempest’, ‘The Winter’s Tale’, ‘Cymbeline’= mix of comedy, folktale,
masque
posthumously: ‘The First Folio’ (published by Hemmings and Condell)
John Donne: ‘Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward’
Heinrich Wölfflin: ‘Renaissance und Barock’
Baroque poets: Marino, Lope de Vega, Luis de Gongora, Francois de Malherbe, John Donne,
George Herbert, John Milton, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Anne Bradstreet (H.Segal)
Cavalier Poets: Thomas Carew, John Suckling, Richard Lovelace. Sons of Ben.
Richard Lovelace: ‘To Lucasta, Going to the wars’
Edmund Waller: ‘Song’
Ben Jonson: ‘Every Man in his humour’, ‘Every Man out of his humour’, ‘Cynthia’s Revels’,
‘Sejanus, his fall’, ‘Eastward hoe’ (with John Marston and Chapman). Masques with I.Jones.
‘Volpone’, ‘Epicoene, the silent woman’, ‘The Alchemist’, ‘Bartholomew Fair’, ‘The
Worckes’
‘The Devil is an ass’, ‘My picture left in Scotland’(for Sir William Drummond).
posthumously: ‘The Underwood’, ‘Timber or discoveries’
John Donne: ‘The Flea’. sermons and meditations.
George Herbert: ‘The Temple’(posthumously published), ‘The Collar’
John Dryden: ‘Essay about dramatick poesy’ (metaphys.), Samuel Johnson: ‘Life of Cowley’
Metaphysical poets: Abraham Cowley, J.Donne, G.Herbert, Richard Crashaw,Henry Vaughan
John Milton: ‘On the morning of Christ’s Nativity’, ‘Alba Amicorum’, pamphlets
‘Arepagitica’
‘Paradise Lost’, ‘When I consider how my light is spent’, ‘To the Ld Gen. Cromwell, May
1652’
‘Paradise Regained’, ‘Samson Agonistes’
Margaret Cavendish: ‘The Life of William Cavendish’
Lucy Hutchinson: ‘The Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson’
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John Aubrey: ‘Brief Lives’
Samuel Pepys: his diary (1660-1669)
George Chapman: ‘Bussy d’Ambois’, John Webster ‘The White Devil’, ‘The Duchess of Malfi’
John Ford: ‘The Broken Heart’, ‘T’is a pity she’s a whore’
city comedies: Ben Jonson, John Marston, John Middleton
William Prynne: ‘Histrio-Mastix’
Richard Steele: ‘The Gentleman: the pretty fellow’
Mary Wollstonecraft: ‘The vindication of the rights of Woman’
Scots: Francis Hutchison, David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson
James Thomson: ‘Four Seasons’, Mackenzie: ‘The Man of Feeling’
Samuel Richardson: ‘Pamela’, Henry Fielding: ‘Shamela’ and ‘Tom Jones’
Anglo-Saxon (Old English) Poetry (prose came later)
A: Heroic Poetry (looks back to a heroic age)
Beowulf
The Dream of the Rood
B: Battle poetry
The Battle of Maldon
C: Other types of poetry: the elegy(or lament)
The Wanderer
D: Religious poetry
Anglo-Saxon prose
Latin prose Bede (c.673-735)
Old-English prose
Aelfric (c955-c1010)
Wulfstan (d1023)
The Anglo-Norman Period
Obituary for William the Conqueror
Chanson de Roland
Marie de France (fl.c.1180)
John Wyclif (c1330-1384)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c1344-1400)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Drama
Key features of the Renaissance
The English Renaissance
Henry VIII(1491-1547)
Edward VI (king 1547-1553)
Lady Jane Grey(9-d-queen)
Mary I (queen 1553-1558)
Elizabeth I(queen 1558-1603)
Bible translations
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
Petrarchist literature
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
Henry Howard (c1517-1547)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Edmund Spenser (c1552-1599)
Shakespeare (the poet) (1564-1616)
Woman Writers in the Renaissance period
Isabelle Whitney (fl.1567-1573)
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1562-1621)
Elizabeth Tudor (1533-1603)
16th century Prose
John Foxe (1516-1587)
Sir Thomas Hoby (1530-1566)
16th century Theatre/Drama
Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
General info on drama in the 16th and 17th century:
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William Shakespeare (the plays)
The Baroque Period
Ben Jonson(1572-1637)
John Donne (1572-1631)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
John Milton (1608-1674)
Charles I (king 1625-1649)
Charles II (king 1660-1685)
Margaret Cavendish
Lucy Hutchinson
Samuel Pepys (1638-1703)
Theatre in the 17th century
Introduction to the 18th century
Required reading (NAEL)
p.32-49 ‘Beowulf’
p.100-102 ‘The Wanderer’
p.105-109 ‘Battle of Maldon’
p.110-112 ‘Obituary for William the Conqueror’
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Bede ‘An Ecclesiastical History of the English People’
p.215-235 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ‘General Prologue’
p.253-281 G.Chaucer, The C. Tales‘The Tale of the Wife of Bath’
p.156
‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’
p.527
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder ‘Whoso list to hunt’
p.920
Sir Philip Sidney ‘Astrophil and Stella’ (Sonnet nr.15)
p.936
Sir Philip Sidney ‘Defense of Poesy’
p.624-627 Edmund Spenser ‘The Faerie Queene’ (fragment top p.625)
p.1042 William Shakespeare ‘Sonnet Nr 147’
p.606-614 Isabella Whitney ‘Will And Testament’
p.958-960 Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke ‘To The Angel
Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney’
p.594
Elizabeth Tudor ‘The doubt of future foes’
p.551
John Foxe ‘Acts and Monuments’
p.1273 John Donne ‘Good Friday, 1613.Riding Westward’
p.1832 John Milton ‘Paradise Lost’ (book 1)
p.1670-1671 Richard Lovelace ‘To Lucasta, Going to the Wars’
p.1676 Edmund Waller ’Song’
p.1409 Ben Jonson ‘My Picture Left in Scotland’
p.1236 John Donne ‘The Flea’
p.1609 George Herbert ‘The Collar’
p.1774-1781 John Milton ‘On The Morning of Christ’s Nativity’
p.1814 John Milton ‘When I consider How My Light Is Spent’
p.1813 John Milton ‘To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652’
p.1818 John Milton ‘Paradise Lost’ (the first verses of book 1)
p.1726: Lucy Hutchinson ‘Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson’
p.2127: Samuel Pepys ‘October the 25th,1668’
p.2481: Steele ‘The Gentleman; The Pretty Fellow’
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