This survey course brings to life monsters, dragons, knights, poets, angels and actors from English literature and culture of the eighth through eighteenth centuries. Watch Beowulf fight Grendel, take a journey to Canterbury with Chaucer's pilgrims, see a Shakespearean play at the Globe Theatre, gasp as Milton's angels fall from heaven, visit exotic lands with Gulliver, and more.Prerequisite: C or better in COMP 101 3 credits (3 lecture hours), fall semesterThis course satisfies the Liberal Arts and Sciences requirement and the SUNY General Education Requirement for Humanities.