CHOOSE ONLY ONE TOPIC, INCLUDE RESEARCH QUESTION

English Research Paper

CHOOSE ONLY ONE TOPIC, INCLUDE RESEARCH QUESTION

Here are your six possible topic choices for the research paper.

• Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as a portrait of the rising middle class in the Middle Ages

• The question of authorship of Shakespeare’s plays

• Elizabethan theater as popular entertainment for its time

The nineteenth-century novel as an examination of the British class system: either Hard Times by Charles

Dickens or Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• How William Butler Yeats’s Irish identity shaped his poetry

• Chinua Achebe’s fiction as a depiction of social change in a British colony