BA Semester 5^th History of English Literature

Paper 1-Unit 1 (Dr R Krishna)

• Introduction: Literary History
• Locating the starting points
• Old English Period
• Middle English Period
• The Age of Chaucer
• Introducing the Elizabethan Era
• The Elizabethan Age: The Beginning of a Golden Era
• Elizabethan Age: English Drama before Shakespeare
• The Emergence of Elizabethan ‘Romantic’ Drama
• The University Wits (Part1)
• The University Wits (Part2)
• William Shakespeare: The man and the dramatist
• William Shakespeare: An Overview of his Drama
• Elizabethan Theatre
• Elizabethan Poetry and Prose
• The Jacobean Age (Part1)
• The Jacobean Age(Part2)
• Jacobean Drama
• Women and Renaissance
• The Caroline Period/The Age of Milton(Part1)
• The Caroline Period/The Age of Milton(Part2)
• The Age of Milton: Prose and Poetry
• The Restoration Age
• The Age of Dryden
• The Restoration Drama
• Neo-Classicism (Part1)
• Neo-Classicism (Part2)
• Neo-Classicism (Part3)
• Neo-Classicism (Part4)
• The Age of Johnson (Part1)
• The Age of Johnson (Part2)