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History of English Literature

By NPTEL (History of English Language and Literature Introduction, Old English Period & Middle English Period Prof.Merin Simi Raj, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences IIT Madras.)

1) Introduction : Literary History.
2) Locating the Starting Points : The Anglo-Saxon Period.
3) Old English period : Anglo-Saxon period.
4) Middle English Period : English Before Chaucer.
5) The Age of Chaucer.
6) Middle English period after Chaucer.
7) Middle English period after Chaucer.(Part-II).
8) The Development of English language - Tracing the Origins and Early Influences.
9) The Development of English Language - Old English to Middle English.
10) Introducing the Elizabethan Era - The English Reformation.
11) The Elizabethan Age : The Beginning Of a Golden Era.
12) Elizabethan Age : English Drama Before Shakespeare.
13) The Emergence of Elizabethan ' Romantic ' Drama.
14) The University Wits : A Prelude to Shakespeare.
15) The University Wits : A Prelude to Shakespeare.(Part-II).
16)William Shakespeare : The Man, the Dramatist and an Age.
17) William Shakespeare : An Overview of his Drama.
18) Elizabethan Theater.
19) Elizabethan Poetry and Prose.
20) The Jacobean Age.
21) The Jacobean Age (Continued).
22) Jacobean Drama.
23) Did Women Have a Renaissance?
24) The Caroline Period / The Age of Milton & The Interregnum.
25) The Caroline Period / The Age of Milton & The Interregnum (Continued).
26) The Age of Milton : Prose & Poetry.
27) Changes in Language : Early Modern English.
28) Early Modern English (Continued).
29) The Age of Restoration.
30) The Age of Dryden.

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