Lecture 1 Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400)1.Background questions2.Selected readingsText A:The General Prologue ofThe CanterburyTalesText B:The Prologue of \"The Wife of Bath'sTale\"3.Assigned readingsLecture 2 Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593)1.Background questions2.Selected readingsText A:Dr.Faustus,Scene 3Text B:Dr.Faustus,Scene 13 &The Epilogue3.Assigned readingsLecture 3 William Shakespeare(1564-1616)1.Background questions2.Selected readingsText A:Hamlet,Act 3,Scene 1Text B:Hamlet,Act 2,Scene 23.Assigned readingsLecture 4 John Dnne(1572-1631)1.Background questions2.Selected readingsText A:The Sun RisingText B:Holy Sonnets,143.Assigned readingsLecture 5 John Milton(1608-1674)1.Background questions2.Selected readingsText A.When I Consider How My Light Is SpentText B.Paradise Lost,Book 13.Assigned readingLecture 6 Alexander Pope(1688-1744)1.Background questions2.Selected readingsText A.An excerpt from An Essay on CriticismText B.An excerpt from An Essay on Man3.Assigned readingsLecture 7 Daniel Defoe(1660-1731)1.Background questions2.Selected readingsText A.An excerpt from Chapter 4 of Robinson CrusoeText B.Excerpts from Chapters 14 and 15 of Robinson Crusoe3.Assigned readingLecture 8 Jonathan Swift(1667--1745