Shakespeare 1

This course is designed to focus on Elizabethan literature, especially early Seventeenth century Shakespearean plays like Hamlet, Othello and King Lear.

Students will have some ideas about Elizabethan literature, especially early Seventeenth century Shakespearean plays, and the tragic sense of life through different dimensions of cross-cultural reading, differences between individual responses and politically socio-economic circumstances. At the end of dis course, students will be able to identify and describe distinct literary characteristics of Elizabethan drama, especially of early Seventeenth century Shakespearean plays, discover the multiplicity of layered meanings by a close textual analysis of poetic works of the dramatist associated with Renaissance, and understand the complex relationship between literary texts’ stylistic features and poets’ socio-political outlooks on cultural issues within the time frames of Renaissance in the British poetic tradition.

Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century Poetry

Elizabethan Drama

Course Name : Elizabethan Drama

Course Code : ENG 0232-1002

Credit Hour : 3

Program: Master of Arts in English (Preliminary & Final)

The Elizabethan age was a kaleidoscope of spectacular genre of Drama. It saw the development of the Elizabethan theatres and the growth of the existing features of the drama. Students will get introduced to the philosophy of the medieval and renaissance thoughts that were reviewed through drama The morality plays provide ample room for the students to dissect the psychology of human mind giving more impetus the meaning of living.


American Literature

The course provides learners with an ample volume of opportunities to explore the enlightened role of American literature that was grounded by the American dream, political, social and technological changes. This course examines the major contributors to the development of American literature, culture, and ideals from the colonial period to the era of modern American. The literature in this course reflects the ideological contributions that affect every modern American citizen.

Old and Middle English Literature

Course Title: Old and Middle English Literature

Course Code: ENG 1009

Course Teacher: Md. Zulhas Sarker

This course entitled Old and Middle English Literature provides students with an opportunity to identify the aspects of English literature in Old and Middle age. Students will study an English Epic 'Beowulf', Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Prologue to the Canterbury Tales', and Thomas Malory's 'Arthur and His Knights'. They will be introduced with the Old and Middle age as well as sociopolitical and religious conditions during those times, and they would be able to develop a rich perspective about those eras in the Great Britain.

Course Assessment Strategy

Total Marks 100 divided into the following categories:

Quizzes 20%

Forum 10%

Homework 10%

Case Study/Workshop 20%

Research Paper/Term Paper 40%

Continental Literature

20th Century English Drama

This course is designed to focus on a literary movement like modernism in teh twentieth century English drama with special attention to teh key playwrights like Henrik Ibsen (not British nor any of his plays ever written in teh 20th century),
G. B. Shaw, J. M. Synge, and T.S. Eliot. Students will has some ideas about modernism, realism, and teh tragic sense of life and feminism through different dimensions of cross-cultural reading, differences between individual responses and political and socioeconomic circumstances. At teh end of this course, they will be able to identify and describe distinct literary characteristics of 20th century modern English drama, discover teh multiplicity of layered meanings by a close textual analysis of plays of teh dramatists associated with modernism and understand teh complex relationship between literary texts’ stylistic features and poets’ socio-political outlooks on cultural issues within teh time frames of modernism in teh British poetic tradition.