Readings
(available in public domain)
Beowulf, Anonymous (project Gutenberg)
Le Morte D’Arthur volume 1 volume 2, Thomas Malory (project Gutenberg)
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (project Gutenberg)
“The Book of the Duchess”, Geoffrey Chaucer:
The Book of the Duchess (modern English)
O livro da Duquesa (prose, in Portuguese)
The Book of the Duchess (middle English)
William Shakespeare’s sonnets (the website linked here also has comments on each sonnet):
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare (project Gutenberg)
Hamlet, William Shakespeare (project Gutenberg)
Macbeth, William Shakespeare (project Gutenberg)
Selected sonnets by Marlowe, Raleigh, Spenser and John Donne (handout to be given in class)
Paradise Lost, John Milton (project Gutenberg)
She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith (project Gutenberg)
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift (project Gutenberg)
Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe (project Gutenberg)
Oedipus the King, Sophocles (project Gutenberg) [Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes]
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (project Gutenberg)
Because of copyright issues, we cannot link to any translation for these texts. However, all works are available in Portuguese by numerous publishers.
Other interesting readings:
Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race, M. I. Ebbutt (project Gutenberg)
The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf, Oscar Ludvig Olson (project Gutenberg)
The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography, Chauncey Brewster Tinker (project Gutenberg)
The Astronomy of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (project Gutenberg)
Memoir of Jane Austen, James Edward Austen-Leigh
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, R. A. Austen-Leigh and W. Austen-Leigh
The Legend of King Arthur at Bibliothèque nationale de France (in french)
