British Literature: Renaissance
Period Reading List for Part One Exam
Christian Practice and Traditions
The King James Bible (selections)
Foxe, Acts and Monuments (selections)
Drama
[Anonymous], Arden of Faversham
Shakespeare, The Tempest
Middleton and Dekker, The Roaring Girl
Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Prose
More, Utopia
Sidney, The Defense of Poesy
Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations (selections)
Bacon, Essays (1625)
Cavendish, A Description of the New World Called the Blazing World
Poetry
Sidney, Astrophil and Stella
Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Books 1, 3, and the Mutabilitie Cantos
Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Jonson, (selections)
Donne, (selections)
Milton, Paradise Lost
English Civil War/Revolution
Winstanley, The True Levellers Standard Advanced
Trapnel, Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea
Hobbes, Leviathan (selections)
Selected Text for Part Two Exam
The next time the exam is given the text for Part 2 will be Twelfth Night.