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Unit 2 Anti-clerical Movement - John Wycliffe - variety of reactions
Unit 3 Middle English Language and Literature - John Gower, William Langland,

Chaucer
Unit 4 Secular prose

BLOCK 4: Transition to the Modern Era

Unit 1 Tudor Monarchy
Unit 2 Growth of the New Middle Classes
Unit 3 Elizabethan Era

BLOCK 5: Renaissance in Literature and Development in Science

Unit 1 Reformation
Unit 2 Humanism

Unit 3 University Wits-Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Lyly, William Shakespeare,
Spenser, Walter Raleigh
Unit 4 Development in Science

BLOCK 6: England under Stuarts

Unit 1 Rule of Charles I, religious controversies - civil war
Unit 2 Oliver Cromwell
Unit 3 Puritanism - literature - Edward Taylor, John Dryden, John Milton -
Metaphysical poets
Unit 4 Theatre, Satire, Political pamphleteering

References

A.L. Rowse, The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of the Society, Ivan. R. Dee Publisher,

2000.
E.H. Carter, Mears, et al., A History of Britain, Stacey International, 2012.
Emilie Amt, (Ed.), Medieval England, 1000-1500: A Reader, the University of Toronto Press,

2000.
Eric Brown, English History, A Concise Overview of the History of England from Start to End,
Guy Saloniki, 2019.
George Macaulay Trevelyan, Illustrated English Social History, Pelican, 1964.
Kenneth O Morgan (Ed), The Oxford History of Britain, OUP Oxford, 2010.
R.E. Pritchard, Shakespeare’s England: Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times, The History
Press Limited, 2003.

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