Shakespearean Tragedies
The Montagues and Capulets56Romeo and Juliet s First Meeting56The Balcony Scene54Tybalt s Death and Romeo s Banishment59Friar Laurence s Plan50The Deaths of Romeo and Juliet58The Ghost of Hamlet s Father56Hamlet s Melancholy and Indecision53Ophelia s Madness and Death53The Play Within the Play53The Duel and the Final Tragedy18The Witches Prophecies53Macbeth s Ambition and the Murder of Duncan52Lady Macbeth s Influence26The Banquet Scene and Macbeth s Hallucinations46Macbeth s Downfall and Death44Othello s Marriage to Desdemona55Iago s Manipulation and Jealousy58Desdemona s Innocence and Suffering41Othello s Jealous Rage and the Murder of Desdemona57The Revelation of Iago s Treachery and Othello s Suicide46Lear s Division of the Kingdom54Goneril and Regan s Treachery50Cordelia s Loyalty and Sacrifice59Lear s Madness and Redemption25The Battle and the Tragic Ending56
Victorian Poetry
The Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Literature45Major Victorian Poets and Their Backgrounds41The Pre-Raphaelites and Aestheticism50Nature and the Environment50Love, Relationships, and the Family53Religion and Spirituality27Traditional Forms and Structures51Imagery, Symbolism, and Metaphor49Rhythm, Meter, and Rhyme57Tennyson s In Memoriam 43Browning s My Last Duchess 51Arnold s Dover Beach 56
Modernist Literature
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot53The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot52Ulysses by James Joyce50Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett47The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov53The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde48To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf54Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf56The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald51
Postcolonial Literature
Definition and Origins of Postcolonialism51Power Dynamics and Representation52Identity, Culture, and Hybridity49Language and Resistance52Chinua Achebe and Things Fall Apart51Salman Rushdie and Midnight s Children58Toni Morrison and Beloved52Margaret Atwood and The Handmaid s Tale46Decolonization and Independence56Cultural Hybridity and Diaspora11Gender, Race, and Class54Postcolonialism and Globalization51
American Literature
Definition and Origins58Pursuit of Happiness and Opportunity42Challenges and Criticisms51Puritanism and the Colonial Era24Romanticism and the Transcendentalists57Realism and Naturalism54Nathaniel Hawthorne54Herman Melville51Walt Whitman55Emily Dickinson56Robert Frost31Sylvia Plath52Arthur Miller51Tennessee Williams54August Wilson59