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EH 603-OLD ENGLISH: LANGUAGE. 4 credits
 Old English grammar and reading from selected texts.
EH 604-MIDDLE ENGLISH: LANGUAGE. 4 credits
 Middle English grammar and reading from selected texts.
EH 610-THE LITERATURE OF IRELAND. 4 credits
 Beginning with the bardic tradition and the young Irish movement and em-
phasizing the major writers of the Irish Renaissance, such as Yeats, Synge, Joyce,
O'Casey.
EH 611-20TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE. 4 credits
 Intensive examination of representative authors.
EH 612-BRITISH AND AMERICAN DRAMA OF THE 20TH CENTURY. 4 credits
 Modern drama in England, Ireland, and America.
EH 621--OLD ENGLISH: LITERATURE. 4 credits
 Old English literary types and schools.
EH 622-BEOWULF. 4 credits
EH 623-MIDDLE ENGLISH: LITERATURE. 4 credits
 Prerequisite: Course in Chaucer at 400 or 500 level.
EH 624-CHAUCER: Troilus and Criseyde. 4 credits
 Reading and critical study of Troilus and Criseyde and the minor poems.
EH 625-CHAUCER: The Canterbury Tales. 4 credits
EH 631-THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND: THE TUDOR PERIOD. 4 credits
 Non-dramatic English literature from the accession of Henry VII to the death
of Queen Elizabeth.
EH 632-THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND: THE LATER RENAISSANCE.
 4 credits
 Non-dramatic English literature from the accession of James I to the Restora-
tion.
EH 634-MILTON. 4 credits
EH 635-SPENSER. 4 credits
EH 636-PRE-SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA: BEGINNINGS THROUGH MARLOWE.
 4 credits
 The classical background; a survey of biblical plays, folk plays, moralities,
and interludes; the classical revival and the University Wits.
EH 637-LATE RENAISSANCE DRAMA: FROM MARLOWE TO THE CLOSING OF
 THE THEATRES. 4 credits
 Plays by Dekker, Massinger, Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, Chapman, Ford,
Middleton, Shirley, Brome.
EH 638-SHAKESPEARE: THE EARLY PLAYS. 4 credits
 The early comedies, histories, and tragedies.
EH 639-SHAKESPEARE: THE LATER PLAYS. 4 credits
 The late comedies, histories, and tragedies.
EH 641-THE AGE OF DRYDEN AND POPE. 4 credits
 Prose, poetry, and drama in the period 1660 to 1744.
EH 642-THE AGE OF JOHNSON. 4 credits
 Poetry, prose, and drama from 1744 to 1798.
EH 644-RESTORATION DRAMA. 4 credits
 Plays by Dryden, Etherege, Wycherley, Otway, Vanbrugh, Congreve, and
others.