Latest explanation:

1)    Chaucer

a.    Conventions of Courtly Love and their ironic use in “The Miller’s Tale”

b.    Chaucer’s employment of Satire and Irony in “The Miller’s Tale”

c.    How Chaucer uses his sources in the Canterbury Tales

d.    The double surprise ending in “The Miller’s Tale”

2)    Rastell’s “The Interlude of the Nature of the Four Elements”

a.    Nature and Science

b.    The Role of Sensual Appetite

c.    “The Interlude of the Nature of the Four Elements” and the Traditional Morality Play

d.    The paradigm shift from authority-centered world picture to experience-related one in “The Interlude...”

3)    Mystery & Morality Plays

a.    The Morality Play: Its Allegorical Mode

b.    The Morality Play: Plot and Characters

c.    Mystery Plays: Their religious content

4)    Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”

a.    Sensuality in the “Bower of Bliss”

b.    The Faerie Queene: Its Allegorical Mode

5)    Shakespeare’s “Richard II”

a.    The idea of kingship in “Richard II”

b.    Father and Son in Richard II: Symbolical Implicatons

c.    The image of the King in Richard II

d.    The gardener’s scene in Richard II

6)    Shakespeare

a.    Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream as Festive Comedy

b.    Chaos and Order in Shakespeare’s Festive Comedies

c.    Shakespeare’s festive comedy

d.    Shakespeare’s concept of the tragic

7)    Metaphysical Poetry

a.    Characteristic Features

b.    Conceits

8)    Restoration Comedy

a.    Character Types (with examples)

b.    Wit, double entendre, and repartee (with examples)

c.    The Restoration Comedy of Manners

9)    OBLIGATORY QUESTION:

a.    Discuss John Donne’s “The Flea”

b.    Herbert’s “Easter Wings”: The Relation of Form and Content

c.    Donne’s “The Bait”: The Logic of Reasoning

d.    Donne’s “The Flea”: Elaborated conceits