ENGL 4620 - British Literature: Renaissance

Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]

This historical survey runs from just before the middle of the sixteenth century to just after the middle of the seventeenth - roughly from the reign of Henry VIII, through the reign of Elizabeth Tudor, to the restoration of Charles II. Some of the more recognizable figures of this study are Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Anne Askew, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, and Robert Herrick. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080. (Note: this survey does not typically try to do justice to its largest figure, Shakespeare - for whom the department has established ENGL 4730: Shakespeare’s Tragedies, Comedies & Histories.)