Course Programme
The course is divided into two parts:
First Part
1.- Elizabethan Poetry. The Faerie Queene
2.- The Making of Shakespeare
3.- Reading Shakespeare: King Lear and The Tempest
4.- Elizabethan Drama. The Theatre of Christopher Marlowe
5.- Seventeenth Century Drama and Poetry.
6.- Medieval English Poetry.
7.- Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales.
8.- Medieval Drama. The Mystery Plays and The Moralities.
Recommended Bibliography
Alexander, M.; A History of English Literature, London: Macmillan, 2000.
Beadle, Richard (ed., The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre,
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Braunmuller, A.R. and M. Hattaway (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama, Cambridge University press, 1990.
Bruce, Susan and Rebecca Steinberger, The Renaissance Literature Handbook, London:
Continuum, 2009.
Carter, R. and McRae, J., (eds.), The Routledge History of English Literature, London:
Routledge, 1997.
Cowen Orly, Lena (ed.), The Renaissance. A Sourcebook, Houndmills: Palgrave, 2009.
Coyle, M. and others (eds); Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism, London:
Routledge, 1990.
Drabble, M., The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford University Press,
1995.
Fernie, Ewan et al.; Reconceiving the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Grazia, M. de and Stanley Wells (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare,
Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Hattaway, M.(ed.); A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
Hebron, Malcolm, Key Concepts in Renaissance Literature, Houndmills: Palgrave,
2008.
Keenan, Siobhan, Renaissance Literature, Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
McRae, A.; Renaissance Drama, London: Arnold, 2003.
Pérez Gállego, C. (ed.); Historia de la literatura inglesa, Madrid: Taurus, 1988, vol. 1.
Poplawski, Paul (ed.), English Literature in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Sanders, A.; The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1994.
Sullivan, Garrett A.; Early Modern English Drama, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Solopova, Elizabeth, Key Concepts in Medieval Literature, Houndmills: Palgrave, 2007.
Womack, Peter; English Renaissance Drama, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. |