Study Guides and Discussion Questions
 

World Literature . General Topics for Study and Discussion Gilgamesh Genesis, other creation and flood stories The Book of Job Homer, TheIliad Homer, The Odyssey Aeschylus, TheOresteia Sophocles, Oedipus Sophoces, Antigone Plato, The Symposium Aristotle, Poetics Ovid, Metamorphoses Vergil, The Aeneid Bhagavad Gita The New Testament St. Augustine, Confessions Dante, Divine Comedy Petrarch Boccaccio Machiavelli Erasmus, The Praise of Folly Lazarillo de Tormes Montaigne, Essais Voltaire, Candide Chunhyang Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Shakespeare General Topics for Study and Discussion Sonnets Richard III The Taming of the Shrew Richard II A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice 1 Henry IV Much Ado About Nothing Henry V Julius Caesar As You Like It Twelfth Night Measure for Measure King Lear Macbeth The Tempest Hamlet Othello Troilus and Cressida

British Literature Beowulf Chaucer, Canterbury Tales Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde Gawain and the Green Knight The Wakefield Second Shepherds’ Play Everyman Courtiers and Princes:  More, Castiglione, and Machiavelli Petrarchan Poets:  Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, and Shakespeare Spenser, Epithalamion Marlowe, Doctor Faustus Shakespeare, Hamlet Shakespeare, Othello Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Metaphysical Poets:  Donne, Herrick, and Marvell Milton, Paradise Lost Congreve, The Way of the World