English 201: English Literature to 1700
Links to Reading Questions for Major Works
Fall 2001

 

Beowulf

Marie de France, Lanval

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, Nun's Priest's Tale, Close of The Canterbury Tales

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

John Milton, Paradise Lost

 

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

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

Chaucer, selections from The Canterbury Tales: Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 3 (selections in The Norton Anthology)

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Shakespeare, King Lear

Behn, Oroonoko

 

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