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Shakespeare to Milton: A Study of British Literature

By Dr. Jai Singh   |   The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Learners enrolled: 1205

 This course is designed to give students a broad overview of

 Literature from the age of Shakespeare to the age of Milton, emphasizing on significant concepts, theory, and research.

 The main objectives of the course are:

  1. • This Course Shakespeare to Milton discusses two most important writers of all times Shakespeare and Milton.
  2. • This course also includes Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, John Webster, and Thomas Kyd.
  3. • This course will acquaint the students with major tragedies written in this period.
  4. • This course will acquaint the students with major epics written in this period.
  5. • This course will also acquaint the students with metaphysical poetry.


Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Core
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Language
Credit Points : 4
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 24 Jan 2022
End Date :
Enrollment Ends : 28 Feb 2022
Exam Date :

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Course layout



Weekly Schedule

Weeks

Weekly Lecture Topics

Assignment 

(No. & Type)*

Week   1

Day 1

 


Day 2

 

 

Day 3

 


Day 4

 

Day 5

 

:

Elizabethan Age to Puritan Age: A Review of Literary Traditions

 

The Renaissance

 

 

Renaissance And Elizabethan Literature

 

Reformation

 

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive

Week - 2

Day 1

 

Day 2

 

 

Day 3

 

Day 4

 

 Day 5

 

:

Medieval Drama

 

History of British Drama

 

 

Introduction to Tragedy  

 

Introduction to Epic

 

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive

Week -3

Day 1

Day 2

 


Day 3

 

Day 4

 

Day 5

Introduction to Sonnet

Introduction to Shakespearean Drama

 

Shakespeare’s Drama Romeo and  Juliet: The Theme of Love and Language Part -1

Shakespeare’s Drama Romeo and  Juliet: The Theme of Love and Language Part -1

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive

Week - 4

Day 1

 


Day 2

 


Day 3

 

Day 4

 

Day 5

Introduction to Shakespearean Tragedy

 

Tragedies of Shakespeare - King Lear Part – 1

  

Tragedies of Shakespeare - King Lear Part – 2

 

The Tragedies of Shakespeare - Hamlet - Part 1

 

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive

Week - 5

Day 1

 


Day 2

 


Day 3

 

Day 4

 

 Day 5

The Tragedies of Shakespeare - Hamlet - Part 2

 

The Tragedies of Shakespeare - Othello Part – 1

 

The Tragedies of Shakespeare - Othello Part – 2

 

The Tragedies of Shakespeare - Othello Part – 3

 

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive

Week - 6

Day 1

 

 

Day 2

 


Day 3

 

 

Day 4

 

Day 5

Understanding William Shakespeare’s Macbeth

 

A Study of different aspects of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

 

Understanding: A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

 

As You Like It  - Part -1

 

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive

Week-7

Day 1

 

 


Day 2

 

Day 3

 

Day 4

 

Day 5

As You Like It  - Part -2

 

 

All The World’s A Stage – William Shakespeare

 

The Marriage of True Minds - William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116Metamorphism

Spanish Tragedy - Part – 1

 

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive

Week - 8

Day 1

 

Day 2

 

Day 3

 

Day 4

 

Day 5

Spanish Tragedy - Part – 2

 

Introduction to Doctor Faustus

 

Dr. Faustus Part 1

 

Dr. Faustus Part 2

 

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive

Week-9

Day 1

 

Day 2

 

Day 3

 

Day 4

 

Day 5

The Duchess of Malfi -Part-1

 

The Duchess of Malfi -Part-2

 

Meta Physical Poetry Part – 1

 

Meta Physical Poetry Part – 2. 

 

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive

Week-10

Day 1

 

Day 2

 


Day 3

 

Day 4

 

Day 5

Song – John Donne

 

Death’s Duel By John Donne - Part – 1

 

Death’s Duel By John Donne - Part – 2

 

The Good Morrow by John Donne

 

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive

Week-11

Day 1

 

Day 2

 

Day 3

 

Day 4

 

Day 5

Introduction to John Milton

 

On His Blindness

 

John Milton’s The First Defense of The

 

Lycidas by John Milton

 

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive

Week-12

Day 1

 

Day 2

 

Day 3

 

Day 4

Paradise Lost Part- 1

 

Paradise Lost Part- 2

 

Paradise Lost Part- 3

 

Assignment and Interaction/Forum activity

Multiple Choice and Descriptive


Books and references

  1. Emma Smith and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. Editors. The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy. Cambridge University Press. 2010.
  2. Michael Schoenfeldt. A Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Blackwell Publishing. 2007.
  3. Hiscock, Andrew. The Uses of this World: Thinking Space in Shakespeare, Marlowe, Cary and Jonson. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2004.
  4. Lunney, Ruth, Marlowe and the Popular Tradition: Innovation in the English Drama before 1595 (Manchester University Press, 2002)
  5. Benet, Diana Treviño and Michael Lieb, eds. Literary Milton: Text, Pretext, Context. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1994.
  6. Robin Robbins. The Complete Poems of John Donne. Longman. 2010.

Instructor bio

Dr. Jai Singh

The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Dr. Jai Singh, Associate Professor, Department of English Literature, The English and Foreign Languages University,Hyderabad 

Areas of Specialization: Contemporary Theory, Postcolonial theory and literature, Indian writing in English, Diaspora Literature, Feminism, Cultural Studies, Orientalism, and Digital Humanities. 

M Phil Dissertation: Culture and Hegemony: A Study of Orientalism 
Ph. D Thesis: Positioning Orientalism in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh 

Papers Presented- 60 in India 15 outside India 
International Visits: 4 
International Funding: 1 
International Assignments 
Member of Panel for Research, Royal University of Bhutan 

Books: 2 

Published Papers: 38 
Scopus Indexed: 8 
Resource Person (Plenary Speaker): 54 

Newspaper Publication: 4 

“Interview with Amitav Ghosh Published in Deccan Chronical dated 6 August 2015. 
“Problems of Laughter and The Comic” The Hindustan Times. 29 July 2017. 
Singh, Jai. “Till New Beginnings are made” The Sunday Tribune: Spectrum. 17 June 2018. 4. Print. 

Other Academic Contributions 

Contributed to Parable International English – Hindi Dictionary by Abhai Maurya 

On the Review board and Editorial, board of various Research Journals 

1. Editor in Chief: Quote Unquote 
2. Guest Editor: Literary Miscellany 
3. Guest Editor: Literaria 
4. Editorial Board The Contour 
5. Editorial Board The Literati: A Peer Reviewed Journal of Language & Literature 
6. Review Board, The Postcolonial Text 
7. Review Board, ICIK 
8. Review Board, Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 
9. Review Board, Amsterdam University Press, for the section on Continental Literature 
10. Review Board, Amsterdam University Press, for the section on Asian Studies 
11. Review Board, Duke University Press, for the section on Asian Studies 

Course certificate

30 per cent for in course Assessment And 70 Per cent for end term proctored exam


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