Compulsory Readings:

- Excerpts from Beowulf.

- Excerpts from “The Dream of the Rood”.

- A selection of Medieval Lyrics.

- Excerpts from the “Prologue” in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

- Excerpts from Everyman.

- Sonnets by Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare.

- William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

- Selection of poems by John Donne and Andrew Marvell.

- Excerpts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys.

At the beginning of the course a copy of the compulsory readings will be at disposal of the students (in Reprography, in Moodle, or in class), with the exception of Hamlet by Shakespeare, that each student will have to achieve or buy. It must be an original and complete version, in any one of the academic editions (ex., Oxford University Press, Penguin, Longman, Cambridge UP, among others).

A bilingual edition of these texts can be used for the reading assignments, but any reference to the works in oral and written discussions must be made to the English version.

Recursos impresos:

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.

Recursos na rede:

- 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/