Beowulf Manuscript (British Museum)
Exeter Book (Exeter Cathedral)
Vercelli Book (Vercelli)
Junius Manuscript (Bodleian Library)
Le Roman de La Rose - courtly love
The Franklin's Tale - Breton lay
The Miller's Tale - fabliaux
The Second Nun's Tale - saint's life
Troilus and Criseyde - not dream vision
The Queritis - the earliest trope (10 c)
Mystery plays - of York, Chester, Coventry, Wakefield - the best Second Shepherd's Play
Morality plays - Everyman, The Castle of Perseverance, Mankind
The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowles, The Legend of Good Women - Chaucer's dream visions
Tottel's Miscellany - poetry volume of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Earl of Surrey
Arcadia (Sidney), comedies by Lyly and Shakespeare, The Shepheardes Calender, The Faerie Queene (Spencer) - pastoralism
Astrophel and Stella (Sidney)-> petrarchism - Sidney, Spencer, Shakespeare - the greatest poets of the age
Civil Wars (Daniel), England's Heroicall Epistles (Drayton), The Faerie Queene (the greatest - Spencer) - patriotic writings
The Cavalier poets - B. Jonson, R. Herrick, T. Carew, Sir J. Suckling, R. Lovelace
Metaphysical poets - J. Donne, G. Herbert, H. Vaughan, R. Crashaw
John Milton - last representative of Renaissance, last Christian humanist: pastoral elegy - Lycidas, pastoral drama - Comus; L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, Areopagitica - pamphlet; Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes - his greatest works in blank verse)
Hamlet - revenge play
Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe, tragedies in blank verse
William Shakespeare - the greatest dramatist, First Folio (tragedies, historical plays (Henry VI, Richard III), comedies (comedy of situation - The Comedy of Errors; romantic comedies - Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night; tragic-comedy - Measure For Measure; romance - The Winter's Tale, the Tempest)