History of English Literature, Volume 1 - eBook

CONTENTS: The Formation of a National Literature - Placing Old English literature in the canon - English history to 1066 - Bede - Old English poetry - Beowulf - The Middle English Period - English history from 1066 to 1485 - Genres and "matters" - The Arthurian romances: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, Layamon - Ricardian literature - The influence of the Roman de la Rose - Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Gower - Langland - Chaucer - The English Chaucerians: Hoccleve, Lydgate, Hawes - Barclay - Skelton - Fifteenth-century Scottish literature - The Scottish Chaucerians: Douglas, Henryson, Dunbar - Lyndsay - Popular ballads and lyrics - Medieval drama - Fifteenth-century prose - The Paston Letters - Caxton - Malory - The Sixteenth Century - England under the Tudors - The English Reformation - English humanism and the Renaissance - More - Conduct books - The Miscellanies - Wyatt - Surrey - The Mirror for Magistrates - Gascoigne - Other minor poets - Elizabethan Catholic poets - Sidney - Greville - Spenser - Ralegh, Wotton - Thomas Campion - Drayton - Daniel - Other sonneteers and pastoral poets - Davies and Davies of Hereford - Hall - Donne - Puttenham - The Elizabethan Theatre - Tudor masques and interludes - Elizabethan drama: An overview - The incunabula - Udall - Bale - Gorboduc - Cambyses - Arden of Feversham - Kyd - Peele - Marlowe - Marston - Chapman - Jonson - Tourneur - Webster - Dekker - Middleton - Beaumont and Fletcher - Massinger - Ford - Thomas Heywood - Shirley -The Beginnings of Narrative Prose - The first eclectic writers - Lyly - Lodge - Greene - Nashe - Deloney - The Marprelate Tracts - Hooker - Travel literature and historical compilations.

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• Estudos literários: clássica, primitiva e medieval
• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
• Estudos literários: peças e dramaturgos