CC7: British Poetry and Drama

CC - VII: British Poetry and Drama (17th– 18th Centuries)

Section A

1. John Milton: Paradise Lost(Book I)

    Summary & Analysis

    Questions & Answers 

2. Thomas Dekker: Shoemaker’s Holiday(ND)

    Summary & Analysis

   Questions & Answers

Section B

3. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock(Cantos I and III)

   Summary & Analysis 
   Questions & Answers

4. Aphra Behn: Oronokoo (ND)

   Summary & Analysis

   Questions & Answers

Topics

Religious and Secular Thought in the 17th Century, The Stage, the State

and the Market, The Mock-epic and Satire, Women in the 17th Century,

The Comedy of Manners