English 201: English Literature to 1700
Links to Reading Questions for Major Works
Fall 2000

 

Beowulf

Arthurian Literature: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, Layamon, Marie de France, Malory

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

Chaucer, selections from The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue, Miller's Prologue and Tale, Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, Nun's Priest's Tale, Close of The Canterbury Tales

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 3 (the Norton selections)

Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Shakespeare, The Tempest (Pelican Shakespeare edition, ed. Peter Holland)

Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

Milton, Paradise Lost selections

 

Reading questions keyed to The Norton Anthology volume 7 for works not read this semester:

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 1 (complete), Book 2, canto 12

Shakespeare, King Lear

Behn, Oroonoko

 

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