Middle English and Elizabethan Literature Quiz

Unit 2: Middle English Literature

• Middle English Poetry: William Langland's "The Vision of Piers the Ploughman"
• Sir Thomas Malory: Morte d'Arthur
• Middle English Drama: John Heywood's "The Four Ps & The Play of the Weather"
• Middle English Prose: Richard Rolle's "The Form of Perfect Living" and Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," translation of Roman de la Rose, Troylus and Criseyde, Legend of Good Women

Unit 3: Elizabethan Poetry and Prose

• Shakespeare: The Sonnets, Venus and Adonis & Lucrece (poems), Coriolanus, Julius Caesar & Antony & Cleopatra (tragedies)
• Edmund Spenser: The Shepherd's Calendar, The Faerie Queene
• Lyric Poetry: Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella

Elizabethan Prose

• Sir Thomas North: Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (translation)
• Richard Hakluyt: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation
• John Lyly: Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit
• Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveler; or The Life of Jacke Wilton
• Francis Bacon: Essays
• William Tyndale: First authorized version of the Bible, translated New testament from Greek and part of New Testament from Hebrew
• Miles Coverdale: Complete translation of the Bible
• Ben Jonson: Timber or Discoveries

Unit 4: Elizabethan Drama

• Drama before Shakespeare: Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister, Gammer Gurton's Needle, John Lyly's Campaspe, and Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville's Gorboduc
• Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
• Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine The Great, Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta, Edward the Second
• Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humour, Sejanus, Volpone the Fox, Every Man out of His Humour, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair, Masques
• John Webster: The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi
• Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher: The King of the Burning Pestle, The Maid's Tragedy

Unit 5: Early 17th Century Literature

• John Milton: Poems (Comus, Arcade, Lycidas) , Areopagitica, A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, Paradise lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes

Unit 6: The Restoration

• John Dryden: The Conquest of Granada, Aurengzebe, All for Love, based on Antony & Cleopatra, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, The Rehearsal
• Comedy of Manners: Sir George Etheredge (The Man of Mode), William Congreve (The Old Bachelor)

Unit 7: English Poetry 1660-1798

• John Dryden: Annus Mirabilis, Absolom and Achitophel, MacFlecknoe, Translations, Essay of Dramatic Poesie
• John Locke: Essay on the Human Understanding
• Samuel Pepys: Diary
• John Evelyn: Diary
• Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism , The Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man., Translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
• Oliver Goldsmith: The Traveller, The Deserted Village

Unit 8: 18th Century Prose

• Daniel Defoe: Journal of the Plague Year, Robinson Crusoe
• Richard Steele & Joseph Addison: The Tatler, The Spectator
• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, A Modest Proposal
• Samuel Johnson: Dictionary

Unit 9: 19th Century Poetry

• William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads (collection of poems). “Lines Written above Tintern Abbey”, “Westminster Bridge”, “London, 1802”, "The Daffodils” and “The Solitary"
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

Unit 9: 19th Century Prose

• Samuel Richardson: Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe,
• Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones
• Tobias Smollett: The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
• Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, A Sentimental Journey through France & Italy
• Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield
• Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto
• William Beckford: Vathek, an Arabian tale
• Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
• Matthew Lewis: The Monk

Unit 10 & 11: 19th Century Novel

• Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion
• Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, The last man
• Sir Walter Scott: Waverley, Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Ivanhoe, Quentin Durward
• Thomas de Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Reminiscences of the English lake Poets
• Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
• Charles Dickens: A tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol

Unit 12: 20th Century Drama

• Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband
• George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Saint Joan, Pygmalion
• T. S. Eliot: The Family Reunion, The Cocktail Party
• Sean O'Casey: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock
• John Millington Synge: The Playboy of the Western World
• Deirdre of the Sorrows

Unit 13: 20th Century Prose

• Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book, Kim
• E. M. Forster: Howard's End, A Room with a View, A Passage to India
• H.G. Wells: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The First Men on the Moon
• Arthur C. Clarke: The City and the Stars, 2001: A Space Odyssey
• D.H. Lawrence (Additional information or specific works would require specifying which items you would like from this author's work)

Unit 14: 20th Century Poetry

• William Butler Yeats: The Green Helmet, The Wild Swans at Cook
• Thomas Hardy: Wessex Poems, satires of Circumstance, Moments of Vision, Human Shows, Far Fantasies
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover
• W.H. Auden: Look, Stranger! (Additional information or specific works would require specifying which items you would like from this author's work)
• T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, Prufrock and Other Observations, The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday
• Dylan Thomas: Eighteen Poems, Twenty-five Poems, Deaths and Entrances
• Philip Larkin: The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings, High Windows
• Seamus Heaney: Door into the Dark, Wintering Out, Sweeney Astray

Test your knowledge on Middle English literature including works by William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Heywood, alongside Elizabethan poetry and prose features from Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. This quiz covers significant texts and their authors from these influential literary periods.