Works and authors from the reading list Flashcards
Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Shakespeare’s early comedies
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare’s major tragedies
Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus
Shakespeare’s late comedies
All is Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure
Shakespeare’s early plays
Henry VI, Richard III, King John
Shakespeare’s romances
Pericles, Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII, Two Noble Kinsmen
Shakespeare’s epic poems
Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece
Shakespeare’s allegorical poem
The Phoenix and the Turtle
The Flea
John Donne
The Good Morrow
John Donne
Poetic and dramatic works by John Milton
L’Allegro, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Comus and Arcades (masques), Lycidas (pastoral elegy)
Political, philosophical and religious prose of John Milton
History of Britain, Of True Religion, Of Reformation, Of Education, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, De doctrine christiana
Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave
Aphra Behn
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
The Lady’s Dressing Room
Jonathan Swift
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
Jonathan Swift
We are Seven
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
