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 Paper-III: MODERN LITERATURE- I
(1550 - 1700)
Detailed study:
1. Christopher Marlowe: Doctor
Doctor Faus
Faustus
austus
2. Sir Francis Bacon: (Ten Essays): Of Truth; Of Death; Of
Unity in Religion; Of Revenge; Of Adversities; Of
Simulation and Dissimulation; Of Parents and
Children; Of Marriage and Single Life; Of Envy; Of
Love
3. John Donne: The Good Morrow; The
canonizaTion; a ValedicTion of My naMe in
The window
4. John Milton: Paradise Lost Book - I
Non-detailed Study:
5. Christopher Marlowe: Edward II
6. Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
7. John Webster: The White Devil
8. John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
The Way of the World
9. William Congreve:
10. Ben Jonson: EvEry Man in His
HuMour
11. Sir Philip Sidney: The Defence of Poetry
12. John Milton: Paradise Lost Book-IX

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 CONTENTS
S. No. Particulars Page No.

1. Background to Elizabethan Drama 1

2. Background to Elizabethan Drama - The Nature of Tragedy 6
3. Doctor Faustus : Christopher Marlowe 14
4. Ten Essays : Francis Bacon 37
5. Bacon : An Assessment 51
6. John Donne : The Canonization 59
7. A Valedication of my name in the Window 68
8. The Good Morrow 77
9. Paradise Lost Book-1: John Milton 83
10. Edward the Second : Christopher Marlowe 100
11. The Spanish Tragedy : Thomas Kyd 144
12. The Spanish Tragedy 178
13. The Spanish Tragedy 181
14. The White Devil: Webster 186
15. The White Devil 228
16. Characterization - The White Devil 234
17. Absalom and Achitophel: Dryden 238
18. Absalom and Achitophel 253
19. Absalom and Achitophel 260
20. The Way of the World : William Congreve 267
21. The Way of the World 303
22. The Way of the World The Play and its Structure 307
23. The Way of the World The Change of Immorality 313
24. Everyman in His Humour : Ben Jonson 316
25. Everyman in His Humour A Critical Appraisal 354
26. The Defence of Poetry - Sidney 357
27. Paradise Lost Book - IX : John Milton 362
28. Paradise Lost Book - IX 378
29. Paradise Lost Book - IX 384
30. Paradise Lost Book - IX 388