General Class Handouts

• Syllabus

• Reading Schedule

• Reading Journal

• Reading Journal Sample Entry

• Author Introductions

• Author Introduction Sample

• The Classical Epic

• Campbell's Heroes Journey Chart

• The Code of Chivalry

• The Medieval Romance

• The Sonnet

• Elizabethan Tragedy

• Aristotle's Components of Classic Tragedy

• Kip Wheeler's Literary Glossary (edited)

Authors and Works

• Beowulf

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

• Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

  • Prologue

  • Pardoner's Tale

• Thomas Malory and Morte d'Arthur

• Petrarch and the Elizabethan Sonneteers

  • Wyatt & Surrey

  • Edmund Spenser

  • Sir Philip Sidney

  • William Shakespeare

• Christopher Marlowe

• Walter Raleigh

• William Shakespeare

• John Donne

• John Milton

• John Dryden

• Aphra Behn

• Jonathan Swift

• Samuel Johnson