ENGLISH LITERATURE TO THE END OF THE 17TH CENTURY - Texts

1 Beowulf: Penguin tr.David Wright

2 OE Poetry The Dream of the Rood - Norton
Judith - Norton
The Wanderer - Norton
Genesis – Kennedy – the first 20 pages
Caedmon's Hymn - Norton
Bede - Norton
3 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – tr. Weston (prose) or tr.O'Donoghue (verse)
4 Sir Thomas Malory The Death of King Arthur – the Peter Ackroyd retelling
The Tale of King Arthur - complete
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot du Lake - complete
The Adventure of the Holy Grail - complete
5 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – Penguin – tr. Coghill
Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Wife of Bath's tale
The Merchant's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
The Prioress's Tale
The Parson's Tale
6 William Langland Piers Plowman tr. Sutton (Prologue, Step 1-5)
7 Everyman - Norton
8 Thomas More Utopia Cambridge tr. Logan or any other edition
9 Elizabethan poetry – selection of sonnets; Spenser Ferie Queene Intro and Canto 1
10 C. Marlowe – Dr Faustus – any edition
11 Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice – any edition
12 Shakespeare – Othello – any edition
13 John Milton – Paradise Lost – any edition (Books 1,2,3,4,9)