English 324 Renaissance [Early Modern]
British Literature, Fall 2003

updated, 11/19/2003

Dr. Herman Asarnow

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Renaissance Images Web Site

Course Guidelines 

Syllabus  

Special website: The Styles of Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Hamlet literary criticism assignment

Questions for Short Response Paper on Marlowe's Dr. Faustus

Link to illustrated title page of the "b" version of Dr. Faustus 

Questions for Short Response Paper on Ben Jonson's Volpone 

Questions for Short Response Paper on Webster's The Duchess of Malfi   

Questions for Short, Response Paper on Sir Philip Sidney's The Defence of Poesie

Questions for Short Response Paper on Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Questions for Sonnets

• About "the sonnet"
• Sonnet readings list

Questions for Renaissance lyrics  and  Renaissance lyric poetry reading list

Questions for Metaphysical poetry Updated from class handout!!

and Metaphysical poetry reading list

Paradise Lost: Readings and Questions for Short Response Paper & Summaries of skipped sections  of  Paradise Lost

The poetic styles of Paradise Lost

 

  Resources for Further Study

• Luminarium--Anniina Jokinen's fine site, featuring biographies & links for many early modern authors as well as background materials (some by professional scholars, some by student scholars)
• Early Modern Resources--Many interesting sites for information and usable material about the Early Modern era.
• Ohio State Renaissance Resources links page
• Colorado State "Renaissance Links" page

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