MA in English From Calcutta University

Hi sir, I am ARvind tagore. I want to pursue MA in English from Calcutta university and I want to know about its syllabus for part 1. Can you help me by providing me with the syllabus of MA in English part 1 of Calcutta University?

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Calcutta university or university of Cacutta is a type of public university.
It was formed in the year 1857.
It is located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
It is affiliated by UGC, NAAC, AIU.

Department of English Language and Literature of Calcutta University offers MA in English course.
As you have asked about the syllabus of MA English Part 1, check below for the information
PAPER 1
UNIT 1-
Pre-Elizabethan Theatre
Elizabethan Theatre
Prologue to ‘Wife of Bath’

UNIT 2-
Chaucer: Prologue to Canterbury Tales
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
The Knight’s Tale
Sir Gawain and the Greene Knight

UNIT 3-
Hamlet/King Lear
Troilus and Cressida/ Measure for Measure
Tempest/ The Winter’s Tale
Richard II/ Henry IV Parts 1 and 2

PAPER 2
UNIT 1-
Elizabethan Poetry other than Shakespeare (Selections)
Bacon’s Essays (Selections)
Elizabethan Prose ( Selections)

UNIT 2-
Marlowe: Dr Faustus /Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
Webster: The Duchess of Malfi /Massinger: A New Way to Pay Old Debts
Ben Jonson: Volpone
Metaphysical Poetry: Donne- On His Mistris, The Flea, The Apparition, The Canonization, The Extasie, Twickenham Garden, A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day 1-7, The Three Hymns
Herbert- The Collar, Easter-wings, The Pulley, Jordan (1) and (2), Redemption, Deniall, Love
Marvell- The Definition of Love, On a Drop of Dew, The Garden
Vaughan- Regeneration, Peace, The World, Man
UNIT 3-
Milton- Samson Agonistes / Paradise Lost Bk IV
Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel Part I/ Congreve: The Way of the World
Swift: Gulliver’s Travels/ Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot


Calcutta university MA English Part 1 syllabus







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