History of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Swinburne Part 2

This part follows the successors of Chaucer, late medieval prose, Malory, early Scottish writing, ballads, the rise of drama, Renaissance prose, Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights and prose writers, and Caroline poets, tracing the expansion from medieval literature into the Renaissance. Chivalric ideals, popular songs, courtly culture, and the public theatre begin to meet, opening literature to wider audiences and more varied forms. In the Elizabethan age, drama becomes a central literary force, while poetry and prose explore desire, power, love, wit, and imagination with greater richness.