The Renaissance and its Impact on England, The Reformation - causes and effects, The Commonwealth of Nations, The Restoration, Coffee-houses and their social relevance
1. Of Revenge - Francis Bacon 2. Sir Roger at the Theatre - Joseph Addison 3. A City Night-Piece - Oliver Goldsmith
Detailed 1. Prothalamion - Edmund Spenser Non Detailed 1. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? - William Shakespeare 2. A Valediction: of Weeping - John Donne 3. Paradise Lost (Book IX) - John Milton ( lines 795 - 833) 4. The Rape of the Lock: Canto III - Alexander Pope (lines 125 -178)
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
Reference Book:
Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page. Ed. Professor M L Stapleton, Dr Sarah K Scott (Revised) - Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013.
Text Book:
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – G M Trevelyan (for Unit I) The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Christopher Marlowe Ed. William-Alan Landes (Revised). Players Press, 1997. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith - Ed. Stephen Coote (Penguin UK, 2004)
