B. A.
Senm II English
Paper 3 The Elizabethan & Jacobean Period (1558-1625)
Course Code
Course Title Paper 3 The Elizabethan & Jacobean Period (1558 -1625)
Credit 03
Teaching per 3hrs
Week
Minimum 14 Weeks (including assignment, Library work, examinations, holidays
weeks per etc.)
Semester
Effective From June 2022
Purpose of To acquaint the students with the flowering of British Literature.
Course
Course 1. To create a historical context , to acquaint the students with landmarks
Objective in the development of English Literature.
2. To make them get an overall picture of the Elizabethan Period with
reference to the major writers and their works.
3. To provide them with some best books of the age to read and understand
and to taste the flavor of the age.
Course After learning the course, the Students will be able to
Outcomes 1. Grasp the variety and richness of the Renaissance
2. Know the growth of lyrics , songs and sonnets flourished during the
Period.
3.Appreciate the greatness and genius of Shakespeare by encountering
one of his best tragedies.
Mapping
between COs
with PSOs
PSO1 PSO2 PSO3PSO4 PSOS
COI
|CO2
CO3
Pre-requisite
Acquaintance with the history of English literature.
Course Content
Unit -A- Topics for Self-Study LAssignments /Library Work
a) Salient features of the Elizabethan Age / the Renaissance
b) The Elizabethan Lyrics and Sonnets
c) The University Wits and their Contribution
d) The Post - Shakespearian Playwrights
e) Elizabethan Prose
Note to the Teachers; The teachers may engage a couple of brain -
storming sessions to create a background of the age with reference to the
above topics.
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Unit - B The Maior Authors of the Age and their imnortant Works:
1. Edmund Spenser : |The Faerie Queene, Amoretti
The Shepherd Calendar,
Epithalamion, Prothalamion
2. Philip Sidney :Arcadia, Astrophel and Stella,
An Apology for Poetry
3. Ben Jonson :Every Man in His Humour
Every Man out of His Humou,
V'olpole, The Alchemist
4 Michael Drayton :England's Heroic Epistles,
The Baron's War
5. Thomas Sackville :Gorboduc (with ThomasNorton)
6. George Gascoigne : Steel Grass, Jocasta
7. Christopher Marlowe : Tamburlaine, Edward lIl, The Jew of Malta
8. George Peele: :The Araygnement of Paris
9. Robert Greene : :FrierBacon and FrierBungay,
Orlando Furioso
10. Thomas Nash :The Unfortunate Traveller
11. Thomas Lodge : |The Wounds of Civil war,Rosalynde
12. Thomas Kyd : The Spanish Tragedy
13. John Lyly : Euphues
14. William Shakespeare : The Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Measurefor Measure,
The Comedy of Errors,
Love's Labour Lost,
All's Well thatEnds Well.,
AMidsummer Night Dream,
The Merchant of Venice,
As You Like It,
Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth,
Hamlet, King Lear, Othello,
Antony & Cleopatra,
Julius Caesar,
Coriolanus,
King Henry IV,
Cymbeline,
The Winter's Tale,
The Tempest
15 Francis Bacon :Essays, The Advancement of Learning.
The New Atlantis, Novum Organum
16. John Webster : The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi
17. Thomas Heywood : 4Woman killed with Kindness
18. Robert Burton :The Anatomy of Melancholy
19. Sir Thomas Browne :Religio Medici, Vulgar Errors,
Urme Burriale
20. Sir ThomasMoore Utopia
21 Sir Walter Raleigh : Historny of the World
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Unit -C:Texts :
1.The following Lyrics and Sonnets have been selected from
EnglishVerse.com (https:/lenglishverse.com/)
a. Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey): The Means to attain Happy Life
b. Sir Philip Sidney: Philomela
c. Edmund Spenser : Easter
d. Samuel Daniel : Ulysses and the Siren
e. Shakespeare : Sonnet 1
f. Michacl Drayton : The Parting
g. Ben Jonson : Hym to Diana
2. Macbeth : Shakespeare (OB)
Distribution of Marks for the University Examination / Weitage
1. 10 MCÌS from unit B(Writers &their Works) 10 Marks (20%)
2. Long/Descriptive answer from Text I 13 Marks (26%)
3. Long/Descriptive answer from Text 2 13 Marks (26%)
4. (a) Two Short notes from Text 1 & 2 (2/4) 14 Marks (28%)
Total 50 Marks
Reference 1.) Elizabethan Critical Essays Volume I: George Gregory Smith
Books
(Nabu Press)
2.) Glimpses of Elizabethan Poetry : H. Singh (Daya Pub. House)
3.) Elizabethan Poetry : Lyrical and Narrative : Ed. A.E. Dyson
(Macmillan )
4.) Shakespearean Tragedy : A.C. Bradley (The Book World)
5.) Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies : Emma Whipday (CUP)
6.) Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth: Ed. S. Neil(Nabu Press)
Teaching Class work, Discussion, Self-Study, Seminars and/or Assignment
Methodology
This course has 03 credits during the semester. The internal evaluation will
Evaluation be out of 20 marks, based on Unit Test marks, Library assignments and
Method attendance marks; while the external evaluation will be out of 50 marks at
the university examination
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Dr. GK. Nanda
Paper 4 The Puritan & Restoration Period (1625-1700)
Course Code
Course Title Paper 4 The Puritan & Restoration Period (1625 - 1700)
Credit 04
Teaching per 4 hrs
Week
Minimum 14 Weeks (including assignment, Library work, examinations, holidays
weeks per etc.)
Semester
Effective From June 2022
Purpose of To acquaint the students with the growth of Puritanism and the Restoration
Course of Charles II and its impact on literature
.
Course 1. To create a historical context , to acquaint the students with landmarks
Objective in the development of English Literature.
2. To create an understanding of the upsurge of Puritanism and how
religion Controls literature to create an awareness of restoration and
its impact on literature.
3. To provide them with some best books of the age to read and understand
and to taste the flavor of the age.
Course After learning the course, the students will be able to :
Outcomes
-grasp the gravity of the civil work and the rise of Puritanism
leading to the decline in drama and theatres.
2. know the growth of restoration comedies and will understand the
contrasted picture of both the periods due to different political setups
3. differentiatethe social conditions prevelent during the periods.
Mapping
between COs
with PSOs PSO1|PSO2 PSO3 PS04|PSO5
CO1
CO2
CO3
Pre-requisite
Acquaintance with the history of English literature.
Dr. G.K. Nanda
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Course Content Unit -A
Topics for Self -Study / Assignments / Library Work
a) Literary features of the Puritan Age
b) John Milton and his literary Achievements
c) The Metaphysical Poets
d) Restoration Comedy
e) John Dryden and his literary Achievements.
Note to the Teachers: The teachers may engage a couple of brain -
storming sessions tocreate a background of the Age with Reference to the
above topics.
Unit - B
Maior Writers of the Period and their Important Works,
Robert Herrick :Noble Number, Hesperides
2 Richard Lovelace To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
3. Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
4. George Herbert :The Temple, Afliction
5. John Milton :Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Comus.
Samson Agonistes, L'Allegro Il Penseroso,
Lycidas,Areopagitica, Art oflogic.
Of True Religion
6. John Donne Songs and Sonnets, Aire and Angels,
Death 's Duell
7 Abraham Cowley :Pyramus and Thisbe, The Davideis
8. Samuel Butler :Hudibras
9. John Dryden :Annus Mirabilis,
Religio Laici,
The Hind and the Panther,
The Rival Ladies,
The Indian Queen,
The Conquest of Granada,
The Mistaken Husband.
All for Love
Absolam andAchitophel.
The Medal, Mac Flecknoe,
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy.
Tyrannic Love, The Indian Emperor.
Aureng -Zeb
10. William Wycherly Love in the Wood, The Country Wife,
The Plain Dealer
William Congreve The Way of the World, The Old Bachelor,
Love forLove
12. George Etheredge : The Comical Revenge, The Man of Mode
SheWould fShe Could
13. John Vanbrugh The Provoked Wife. The Confederacy
14. George Farquhar The Recruiting Officer.
The Beax Stratagem
1 Aphra Behn |The Amorous Prince, The Dutch Lover Il
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The Rover, The False Count,
The Emperor of the Moon,Oroonoko
The Lucky Mistake
16. Thomas Otway :Orphan, Don Carlos
17. Nathaniel Lee :Nero, The Rival Oueens
18. John Bunyan :The Pilgrim's Progress,
Grace Abounding.
The Life andDeath of Mr. Badman,
The Holy War
|19. John Evelyn: : |Diary
Unit -C:Texts :
1. Selected Poems of John Donne(EnglishVerse.com)
a.) The Flea
b.) The Sun Rising
c.) Death
d.) A Hymn to God the Father
& 2.Hymn on the Morning of Christ Nativity : Milton(
EnglishVerse.com (https://englishverse.com)
3. The Country Wife : William Wycherley ( free e book)
Distribution of Marks for the University Examination / Weitage
1. 10 MCÌS from unit B (Writers & their Works) 10 Marks (20 %)
2. Long/Descriptive answer from Text I 13 Marks (26%)
3. Long/Descriptive answer from Text 2 13 Marks (26%)
4. Long /Descriptive answer from Text 3 14 Marks (28%)
Total 50 Marks
Dr. G.K. Nanda
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Reference Books :
1.)AHistory of EnglishLiterature : Chaudhary &Goswamy (0.B.)2.) History of
English Literature : Edward Albert (0UP)
2.) The Cambridge Introduction to Milton: Dobranski Stephen B.(CUP)4,) Milion:
Sunilkumar Sarkar (Atlantic)
3.) Milton : David Daiches (Norton)
4.) The Comedy of Manners :John Palmer (Forgotten books)7.) Restoration
Comedy : Bonamy Dobree (Booksway)
5.) Love, Style and Texture in the Restoration Comedy of Manners :Partha
Mukhopadhyay (Blue Rose)
6.) The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre : Ed.
Deborah Payne Fisk(CUP)
Teaching Methodology:
Class work, Discussion, Self-Study, Seminars and/or Assignment
Evaluation Method:
This course has 04 credits during the semester. The internal evaluation will be out of 20
marks, based on Unit Test marks, Library assignments andattendance marks; while the
external evaluation will be out of 50 marks at
the university examination
Dr. G.K. Nanda
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