1. Pay attention to the following proper names:
Caedmon, St. Bede the Venerable, Beowulf, Julius Caesar, Sir Gawain, William Concerning Piers, William Langland, Canterbury, Chaucer, Thomas Melory, Le Morte d’Arthur, King Arthur, William Caxton, Thomas More, Utopia, Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, Renaissance, William Shakespeare, Richard, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Christopher Marlow, Dr. Faustus, Francis Bacon, Ben Johnson, Thomas Hobbs, Leviathan, Samuel Pepys, John Milton, William Congreve, Richard Steel, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver, John Gay, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2. Read after the speaker:
Theologian, chronologist, manuscript, paganism, medieval, aspiration, vigour, playwright, mysterious, circumstance, comprehensive, allegory, epistolary.