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HANDOUTS:

I. Anglo-Saxon England

The Lord's Prayer
Beowulf Discussion Questions
Issues in Translating Beowulf
Time Line & Map
Historical Background to Old English Literature
"Wanderer" & "Battle of Maldon" Discussion Questions
Beowulf Digression
AngloNorman Questions

III. 14th and 15th Centuries

Scenes of Gawain's Death
Vocabulary for Reading Chaucer
"General Prologue" Discussion Questions
"Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" Guide
The York Plays

Corpus Christi Cycle
SGGK Dicussion Questions

I.V. The 16th Century

Lyric Poetry of the later 16th-Century
Renaissance Humanism
William Tyndale
The New Religion
Three Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences
More's Utopia
More's Discussion Questions#2 Utopia
More's Utopia(xerox)
Dr. Faustus Some Comments and Questions:
The Faerie Queene: A Brief Outline of Book I
Faerie Queene and Allegory
Three Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences

V. The 17th Century: Exploration, Encounter, Experimentation

The Tempest
Romeo & Juliet Discussion Questions

 
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