English 205:
Lectures
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; The Beggar's Opera
Lecture 13: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century; swift, Gulliver's Travels