B22BAENDCT302 RITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 17TH & 18TH CENTURY

Course Code: 22BAENDCT302: British Poetry and Drama 17th- 18th Century (DSC)                                             

SEMESTER III

                           Credit 4

                                L.T.P

3.1.0. 

                                                                                                                                                    

Course Outcomes:

 

After completing the course students will be able to:

C01     Define the characteristics Epic and Mock epic.

C02     Understand the evolution of Parliamentary government and the new restrictions on the monarchy in 17th century England.

C03     Develop a deeper knowledge of works of Aphra Behn as a literary role model for the later generations of women authors.

C04     Critically examine the clash between the king and Parliament over the issue of religion.

C05     Evaluate the superiority of men over women within both the household and public sphere.

C06     Construct their critical thinking skills to explore themes of political satire, social upheaval and reversal of personal status in the literary works of 17th-18th century.

 

UNIT 1:

John Milton Paradise Lost: Book 1

UNIT 2:

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

 

UNIT 3:

Aphra Behn The Rover

 

UNIT 4:        

Francis Bacon ‘Of Revenge’


UNIT 5:

Andrew Marvell ‘To His Coy Mistress’


Class Presentations Topics from the books above:

  • Religious and Secular Thought in the 17th Century
  • The Stage,The State and the Market
  • The Mock-epic and Satire
  • The comedy of manners
  • Machiavelli tragedy
  • Revenge Tragedy

Suggested Readings:

Texts:

1.     The Holy Bible, Genesis, chaps. 1–4, The Gospel according to St. Luke, chaps. 1–7 and 22–4.

2.     Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ed. and tr. Robert M. Adams (New York: Norton, 1992) chaps. 15, 16, 18, and 25.

 

References:

3.     Thomas Hobbes, selections from The Leviathan, pt. I (New York: Norton, 2006) chaps. 8, 11, and 13.

4.     John Dryden, ‘A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire’, in TheNorton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, 9th edn, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (NewYork: Norton 2012) pp. 1767–8.

 

 

 


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