Tudor Age to the Age of Revolution
This week you will read a selection of literary works from the Tudor Age to the Age of Revolution. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from among a diverse group of authors for what they reflect and reveal about the evolving British experience and character. We begin the course by reading about the origin of British literature. The literary texts you will read in this unit will provide you with knowledge of the history that impacted the earliest works. Student Learning Outcomes Addressed:
· Identify key ideas, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.
· Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.
Core Competencies Addressed:
· Biographical, historical and literary analysis
Readings: Interview a Character Assignment Instructions
From British Literature I “Part 2: The Tudor Age,”
· Introduction, pages, 599-602.
· Sir Thomas More’s “Preface” to Utopia, pages 602-607.
· William Shakespeare, “Sonnets 18,” and “Sonnet 106,” pages 1174-1177, page 1178, and page 1182.
· William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1 & Act II pages 1280-1298.
From British Literature I, “Part 3: The Seventeenth Century: The Age of Revolution”
· “Intro,” pages 1415-1420.
· John Donne, “Holy Sonnet 10,” pages 1420-1421, and pages 1428-29.
· John Milton, “Lycidas,” pages 1712-1714 and 1722-1726
From A Glossary of Literary Terms
· “Sonnet,” pages 369-370
· “Tragedy,” pages 405-408
· “Three Unities,” pages 403
· “Drama,” page 95
· “Elegy,” page 103
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