ENGLISH 214

Early Texts: Modern Inventions

Please note: this is archived course information from 2022 for ENGLISH 214.

Description

A study of key works and contexts of selected medieval and early modern writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn. Offers a compact history of literary engagements with important social issues that arose in a period notable for revolution and reform; also develops knowledge of literary forms and trends that are historically important, but, in this period, relatively new.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline for ENGLISH 214.

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Availability 2022

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Reading/Texts

Malory, King Arthur and his Knights; Selected Tales by Sir Thomas Malory, ed. Eugene Vinaver (Oxford, 1975), York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling, ed. Richard Beadle and Pamela King (Oxford, 1984), Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ed. Peter Holland (Penguin, 2000); Jonson, Volpone, or The Fox, ed. Robert Watson, New Mermaids (2003); Behn, Oroonoko and Other Writings, ed. Paul Salzman (Oxford World's Classics, 2009).

Texts for Chaucer, Sidney and Shakespeare sonnets, Marvell and Donne poems to be advised.

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

ENGLISH 214: 15 points

Prerequisites

15 points at Stage I in English

Restrictions

ENGLISH 210, 330