On these pages, you will find links to the lectures that go along with the readings. Please read them carefully, and try to answer all the questions (in your head; no need to write down answers).
Lecture 1: Introduction to English Literature
Lecture 2: Old English Literature; Beowulf
Lecture 3: The Middle Ages; Sir Gawain
Lecture 4: The Middle Ages; Chaucer
Lecture 5: The Middle Ages; Malory, Morte Darthur
Lecture 6: The Sixteenth Century; More, Utopia
Lecture 7: The Sixteenth Century; Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Lecture 8: The Sixteenth Century; Shakespeare, King Lear
Lecture 9: The Seventeenth Century; The Metaphysical Poets
Lecture 10: The Seventeenth Century; Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Lecture 11: The Seventeenth Century; Milton, Paradise Lost
Lecture 12: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century; Locke and Defoe
Lecture 13: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century; The Beggar's Opera
Lecture 14: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century; Swift, Gulliver's Travels