S.Y.B.A (DSC)- SYLLABUS

Semester III

DSC 2 A : BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 14^th to 17^th Centuries

1. Geoffrey Chaucer – The Wife of Bath’s Prologue

2. Edmund Spenser Selections from Amoretti:
a)  Sonnet LXVII ‘Like as a huntsman...’
b) Sonnet LVII ‘Sweet warrior...’
c)  Sonnet LXXV ‘One day I wrote her name...’

3. John Donne

a)‘The Sunne Rising’
b) ‘Batter My Heart’
c) ‘Valediction: forbidding mourning’

4. Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus

5. William Shakespeare – Macbeth

6. William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Topics :

i) Renaissance Humanism
ii) The Stage, Court and City
iii) Religious and Political Thought
iv) Ideas of Love and Marriage
v) The Writer in Society

Readings
1.Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man, in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin
(New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 476–9.
2. John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp.704–11.
3. Baldassare Castiglione, ‘Longing for Beauty’ and ‘Invocation of Love’, in Book 4 of The Courtier, ‘Love and Beauty’, tr. George Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin, rpt. (1983) pp.324–8, 330–5.
4. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, ed. Forrest G. Robinson (Indianapolis: Bobbs -Merrill, 1970) pp. 13–18.