PERIOD-BASED LITERATURE GUIDES
Unless otherwise noted, the files below are in downloadable MS Word format and PDF format. The majority of them are credited to and/or adapted from colleagues and professors at UC Irvine, and some of them are my own guides. They are for educational, non-commercial use only.
ANCIENT LITERATURE
Introduction to Ancient Greek Theater | PDF
RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
Shakespeare Review Guide | PDF
The Renaissance Great Chain of Being | PDF
The Humors in Renaissance Philosophy and Medicine | PDF
Music of the Spheres: Tuning of the World: Image
The Ptolemaic System, Image and Explanation | PDF
Rhetoric during the Renaissance | PDF
The Tripartite Soul in Renaissance Philosophy | PDF
Typology during the Middle Ages and Renaissance | PDF
Lyric Categories of the Renaissance | PDF
Petrarch, Herbert, Wyatt & the Gospels | PDF
Sir Francis Bacon and Skepticism | PDF
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR PERIOD LITERATURE
Chronology of Events in Paradise Lost | PDF
Review Sheet for Milton’s Paradise Lost | PDF
Epic Forms and Modes in Paradise Lost | PDF
Interpreting Paradise Lost, a Guide | PDF
Things to Look for in Paradise Lost | PDF
Epic Conventions in Paradise Lost | PDF
The Dramatic Form of Paradise Lost, Book IX | PDF
Typology in Paradise Lost | PDF
The Divine Right of Kings Theory | PDF
RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature | PDF
Wit during the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century | PDF
Rhetoric in the Augustan Age | PDF
Chronology of Eighteenth-Century Literature | PDF
Poetics during the Eighteenth Century | PDF
Libertinism and Skepticism | PDF
Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, Summary | PDF
Satire: Memorable Quotations | PDF
ROMANTIC LITERATURE
Topics in Romantic Literature | PDF
Backgrounds of Romanticism | PDF
Comparison of C18 and Romanticism | PDF
Christianity and Romanticism | PDF
Milton in the Age of Romanticism | PDF
Note on Romantics by Richard Kroll | PDF
Prophecy and Romanticism | PDF
VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Introduction to the Victorian Period | PDF
Darwin: The Monkey’s Uncle Theory | PDF
Tennyson’s Aesthetic Lady of Shalott | PDF
Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a Guide | PDF
Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, a Guide | PDF