RENAISSANCE
PERIOD (1350-1660) can be dived into two periods
1) Chaucerian (1350-1400)
2)
Sir John Mandeville (1300-1371) Written Voyage
and Travel
3)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) Prologue To The Canterbury
Tales
4)
John Gower (1330-1408) Confessio Amantis
5)
Sir Thomas Malory (1415-1471) Morte Darthur
2) ELIZABETHAN ERA (1500-1660)
1) Sir Thomas More
(1478-1535) Utopia
2) Wyatt and Surrey, The New Poetry
3) John Lyly (1553-1606) Euphues And His Anatomie of Wit
4) Sir Philip Sydney (1454-1586) Arcadia
5) Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) The Shepherd’s Calendar
6) George Gascoigne (1530-1577) Lyric Poet
7) John Donne (1573-1631) Metaphysical Poet
8) Nicholas Udall (1504-1556) Ralph Roister Doister
9) Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), The Faire Queene and Dr.
Faustus
10) Shakespeare (1564-1616) sonnets and Great Tragedies
11) Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Novum Organum
NATIONAL LIFE (1603-1660)
1)
Ben Johnson (1573-1631) Volpone and The
Alchemist
2)
John Fletcher(1579–1625) The Mad Lover and The
Chances
3)
John Webster (1580-1634) The White Devil
4)
James Shirley (1596-166) Love Tricks and the
Traitor
5)
John Milton (1608-1674) Paradise Lost
6)
John Bunyan (1628-1688) Grace Abounding to the
Chief of Sinners
RESTORATION PERIOD (1660-1700)
1)
Samuel Buttler (1613-1678) Hudibras
2)
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) Diary
3)
John Dryden 1(1631-1700) Absalom and Achitophel
