Magisterprüfung Mündlich Literaturwissenschaft:Nico Zorn

Topic 1: Middle English Arthurian Romance and Adaptation

1. Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales (14th century)
1. The Knight’s Tale
2. The Wife of Bath’s Tale
3. Sir Thopaz
2. (anonymous): Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 14th century)
3. Mallory, Sir Thomas: Le Morte D’Arthur (1485)
4. Spenser, Edmund: The Faerie Queene (1590)
1. Book I: Of Holinesse
2. Book II: Of Temperaunce
5. Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)

Topic 2: Elizabethan to Restoration Drama

1. Shakespeare, William: Richard III (~1591)
2. Howard, Robert; John Dryden: The Indian Queen (1664)
3. Villiers, George: The Rehearsal (1672)
4. Wycherly, William: The Country-Wife (1675)
5. Etherege, George: The Man of Mode (1676)
6. Steele, Richard: The Conscious Lovers (1722)

Topic 3: Future Views

1. Madden, Samuel: Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733)
2. Mercier, Louis-Sébastien: Memories of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred (1771)
3. Woolstonecraft-Shelly, Mary: The Last Man (1826)
4. Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine (1895)
5. Star Trek: TNG: First Contact (18/02/1991)