Medieval and Renaissance Literature

From Dante and the Nibelungenlied to Shakespeare and Cervantes.

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1. Medieval and Renaissance Literature

A journey through a thousand years of Western literature, from the heroic verse of Beowulf and the Nibelungenlied through Dante's Divine Comedy to Cervantes's Don Quixote and the plays of Shakespeare.