Candidates who desire to offer any other subject or period as a Special Subject must obtain the leave of the Board of Studies a year before the Examination.
Candidates who offer a period of English Literature will be expected to show a competent knowledge of the History, especially the Social History, of England during such period.
The following scheme of papers is contemplated:—
1. Beowulf and other Old English texts.
2. King Horn, Havelok, Minot, Sir Gawain.
3. Chaucer and Piers Plowman.
4. Shakespeare.
5. Milton.
6. History of the language.
7. Gothic—O. E. and M. E. translations.