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Day Date Topic Notes
T 19-Aug

Beginning: 17th and 18th century literature (also called Restoration and 18th century, sometimes called The Englightenment)

  •  Dryden, Annus Mirabilis p. 2085;
  • Wilmot, Disabled Debauchee 2168
  • film excerpts

MetaPages (Overviews)

 Volume C
R 21-Aug

Powerpoint Presentation (based on Intro to Volume C)

History and Context: 18th century sites

Note: Drop add ends Friday

DISCUSSION OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS

T 26-Aug
  • Gay, The Beggar's Opera 2611-2656

Opera Links

RS (we'll do this one in class)
R 28-Aug
  • Swift's "Dressing Room" and Montague's "Reasons" 2590-2595
  • Astell, "Reflections" 2284-8; Preface 2833-7.
  • Wilmot," Imperfect Enjoyment" 2169
  • Behn, "The Disappointment" 2180-2
  • Pope, Rape of the Lock, Canto I 2513-8

History and Context:

 RS (A poem and its response or Astell's works)
M 1-Sep LABOR DAY--NO CLASS  
T 2-Sep

Other links:

Presentations:

 
R 4-Sep

History and Context:

RS (any of the three works)
T 9-Sep

Reading

  • Behn, Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave

History and Context

RS

Presentation: English Colonialism

Presentation: Women and Literacy in the Enlightenment

R 11-Sep

History and Context

 Volume A
T 16-Sep
  • Beowulf ( a little long)

Links:

Fifth Week Grade Reporting this week

 

RS

Presentation: Anglo-Saxon Art and the Sutton Hoo treasures

R 18-Sep

Handout: The Tain from Kinsella's translation

History and Context

Presentation: Norman Conquest
T 23-Sep

Arthurian Legend

History and Context: Who was Arthur?

History and Context: Sir Gawain
Presentation: Arthurian Legend
R 25-Sep

History and Context

 RS

Presentation: Women and Medieval Religious Orders

T 30-Sep Presentation: The Arab World: Crusades, their aftermath, and beginnings of Trade
R 2-Oct

Chaucer--Wife of Bath's prologue and tale

History and Context

RS (Margery Kempe)

Presentation: Printing and Literacy in the 15th-16th centuries

T 7-Oct
  • Ancrene Rule 157-159
  • Julian of Norwich chapters 3,7,58-61 (pp 371-377)
  • Margery Kempe 383-397

History and Context

TAKE HOME MIDTERM ASSIGNED

 

 

R 9-Oct FALL BREAK  
T 14-Oct FALL BREAK  
R 16-Oct
  •  Everyman 463-484

History and Context

 RS

Presentation: Medieval drama and stagecraft

T 21-Oct

The Renaissance (aka Early Modern period)

Readings: Renaissance Prose

  • Lyly, Euphues 944-6
  • Bacon, Novum Organum & The New Atlantis 1565-1573
  • Hobbes, Leviathan 1594-1604
  • Milton, Areopagitica 1816-1825
  • Williams, The Bloody Tenet of Persecution (read online)

History and Context: The Reformation & the Renaissance

Presenation: Protestant Reformation--Highlights

Presentation: Voyages of Discovery

W 22-Oct ADVISING DAY--NO CLASS  
R 23-Oct

Paper Topic Discussion

Renaissance Prose, continued

Renaissance Lyric

  • Passionate Shepherd 1022; Nymph's reply 917;
  • Shakespeare Sonnet 20 (p. 1064); 130 (p. 1074) 

History and Context

Note: Friday is last day to drop with a W

RS any one poem

Presentation: Renaissance Science & Medicine

Presentation: Life of Queen Elizabeth

T 28-Oct Test and discussion: 1599: Year in the Life of Shakespeare  
R 30-Oct  Henry V (film) (be reading Julius Caesar online)  
T 4-Nov READING DAY--NO CLASS Start studying for those finals....
R 6-Nov  "" ""; Other film excerpts Presentation: Shakespeare's Stagecraft in King James’s reign
T 11-Nov Julius Caesar (acts I, II, and III) Presentation: England's Irish Wars and Settlement
R 13-Nov

Continue reading Julius Caesar

Acts IV and V

 

 
T 18-Nov

Court Masque and Pastoral: Spenser and Sidney

Reading:

  • Masque of Blackness (read this) 1326
  • Sidney's Arcadia (we'll discuss this; read the intro, not the text) 949
  • Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar (Read the intro) 708

History and Context: Courtly economy and courtly forms

Tudor and Stuart court masque
R 20-Nov

Reading: Donne

  • The Flea
  • The Sun Rising
  • Valediction Forbidding Mourning
  • Holy Sonnet 7 (1269)
  • Good Friday, 1613 Riding Westward

Reading: Herbert

History and Context

RS (Any poem )

Presentaton: Baroque Art and Architecture

T 25-Nov

Metaphysicals and Cavaliers

Cavaliers

  • Herrick, The Vine 1645; Upon Julia's Clothes 1654
  • A Rapture, 1661
  • Marvel, To his Coy Mistress 1691
  • Andrew Marvell

Metaphysical Tradition

Last day to drop for mental health, etc.

Presentation: The Stuart Dynasty (James I, Charles I and II, James II)

 

R 27-Nov THANKSGIVING--NO CLASS  
T 2-Dec

Paradise Lost: Structure and the Four invocations (Beginnngs of Book 1, 3, 7. 9)

Reading: Book 1 (excerpts); book 2

History and Context

PAPER DUE

Presentation: English Civl Wars and aftermath 1640-60

R 4-Dec

FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

Paradise Lost

Reading: Book 2 cont'd; Book 9

History and Context: Milton Links

History and Context: Paradise Lost in Context

RS
       
M 8-Dec Shakespeare final 12 PM -2:30 PM  
W 10-Dec 251 final 12 PM - 2:30 PM