Readings:

Unit 2: Selected passages from Beowulf and “The Dream of the Rood”.

Unit 3: A selection of Middle English Lyrics.

Unit 4: “Preface” to Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.

Unit 5: Fragments from Everyman.

Unit 7: A selection of sonnets by Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare.

Unit 8: William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

Unit 9: A selection of poems by John Donne and Andrew Marvell.

Unit 10: A selection of entries from Samuel Pepys’s Diary.

A booklet with the selected readings will be provided at the beginning of the course, with the exception of Shakespeare's play. Students will need to get their own copy of Hamlet, in its original, unabridged, English version. Any edition by a major publishing house such as Oxford University Press, Penguin or Longman, among others, is acceptable.

Print Resources:

Abrams, M. H., et. al., gen. ed., The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 2 vols. 7^th ed. New York: Norton, 2000.

Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature. London: Macmillan, 2000.

Blamires, Harry. A Short History of English Literature. London: Routledge, 1984.

Beadle, Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Burrow, J. A.  Middle English Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

Carter, Ronald and John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English. Britain and Ireland. London & New York: Routledge, 1998.

Clanchy, M. T. From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.

Ford, Boris, ed. The Pelican Guide to English Literature. 8 vols. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988.

Godden, Malcolm, and Michael Lapidge, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

MacLean, Gerald, ed. Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Ousby, Ian. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Rogers, Pat, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Web Resources:

- English Literature: http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html#Medieval

- Luminarium. Anthology of English Literature: http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

- Medieval England: http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/subjects/british_isles/england/england.html

- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

- The Norton Anthology of English Literature: www.wwnorton.com/nael/