NBB AN 129 G2 History of English Literature 1
2010 Autumn
Dr. Dolmányos Péter
Seminars
Schedule
1. INTRODUCTION
2. ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE: Beowulf, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Dream of the
Rood
3. MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE. The Alliterative Revival: Pearl; Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight; William Langland: Piers Plowman
4. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales -- General Prologue, The Knight’s Tale, The
Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The Pardoner’s Tale
5. DRAMA: FROM MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE. Everyman; Thomas Kyd: The Spanish
Tragedy.
6. Test paper.
7. PROSE: Thomas More: Utopia. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA. Christopher Marlowe: Doctor
Faustus.
8. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Much Ado About Nothing. William
Shakespeare: Richard III
9. Shakespeare: Othello; Macbeth.
10. Shakespeare: The Tempest. THE DRAMA BESIDES SHAKESPEARE: Ben Jonson: Volpone.
11. POETRY IN THE 16TH CENTURY: The Sonnet – from Wyatt to Shakespeare
12. Test paper.
13. Conclusions.
Required readings
THE
WORKS MENTIONED ABOVE ARE ALL REQUIRED READINGS. IN ADDITION, HERE IS A
LIST OF SHORT POEMS WHICH ARE TO BE COVERED DURING THE POETRY SESSIONS:
Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbour; Farewell, Love
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought; The
Soote Season
Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophil and Stella: 1, 39
Edmund Spenser: Amoretti: 75
William Shakespeare: Sonnets 18, 60, 73, 129
The aim of the seminar course is the close reading and analysis of individual works. The
students are required to deliver presentations on one of the longer readings. Two test papers
are intended to check students’ preparation during the course, one at mid-semester and one at
the end. Important: a failure to turn up when the presentation is due or missing a test paper
results in a one. Questions checking the required readings will also be included in test papers
during the semester – a failure in not reading the required works will affect the endterm mark
of the student.
Criticism:
Required:
Baugh, A. /ed/ A Literary History of England. London: Routledge.
Daiches, D. A Critical History of English Literature. London: Mandarin, 1994 /1969/ rel.
chapters
NBB AN 129 G2 History of English Literature 1
2010 Autumn
Dr. Dolmányos Péter
Seminars
Recommended:
Ford, B. /ed./ Medieval Literature. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol.1.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984
Ford, B. /ed./ The Age of Shakespeare. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol.2.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984
Bolton, W. F. /ed./ The Middle Ages. The Penguin History of Literature. Vol. 1.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993 /1986/
Ricks, C. /ed./ English Poetry and Prose 1540-1674. The Penguin History of Literature. Vol.
2. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993 /1986/
Ricks, C. /ed./ English Drama to 1710. The Penguin History of Literature. Vol. 3.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993 /1987/
Introductory chapters of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. 1. New York: W.
W. Norton, 1993 /sixth edition/
Wells, S. /ed./ The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1986
Pearsall, D. The Canterbury Tales. 1985
Penguin Critical Studies series – Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare
The New Penguin Shakespeare series /good introductions and notes/
Boyce, C. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Shakespeare. Wordsworth Reference. Ware:
Wordsworth Editions, 1996 /1990/
Cook, W.R., Herzman, R.B. The Medieval World View. New York/Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1983