Department of English Literature Bibliography

Lecturer dr. Daniela Brown

Department of English Literature

Bibliography

Course on English Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Primary Sources

Beowulf

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Everyman

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (The General Prologue, the Tale of the Wife of Bath, The Miller’s Tale)

Shakespeare:

Sonnet 18,Sonnet 53,  Sonnet 116

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Twelfth Night

        Richard III

Hamlet

Macbeth

The Tempest

As You Like It

The Metaphysical Poets:

John Donne (A Lecture Upon the Shadow),

George Herbert (Easter-Wings),

Andrew Marvell (To His Coy Mistress)

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/donnebib.htm

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/herbbib.htm

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm

Secondary Sources: Critical Material

Briggs, Julia. This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. London: Fourth Estate, 1999

Bolton, W. F. Ed. The Middle Ages. Vol1. London: Penguin Books, 1993

Essays in Renaissance Drama. Compiled by Madalina Nicolaescu and Ioana Patuleanu (See the Foreign Languages Library)