Weekly Schedule and Assignments

Reading the 1938 Hobbit Aloud: The Athenaeum Forum, Saturday, September 26, from 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM Celebrate the 72nd publication anniversary of the English first edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit by attending a reading of Goucher College's copy of the 1938 American first edition. Hear it as it was meant to be read, aloud, with projected images of original drawings and paintings created by Tolkien especially for this edition. Bring your modern Hobbit editions and listen for his editorial changes as he revised this earliest published tale of Middle Earth to fit his fully realized vision of it in The Lord of the Rings. Contact Arnie Sanders by email before September 11 if you want to be one of the readers.

Week 5
Monday 9/28: [National Punctuation Day!] Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (916-31)

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Wednesday 9/30: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and "Epithalamion" (863-78).

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Friday 10/2: Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (essay on Marlowe, 970-71, essay on the play, prologue and scenes 1-5, 990-1008).

_______Adam Marans__________________

Week 6
Monday 10/5: Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (scenes 6-13, 1008-23).

________Angela Grasci_____________________________

Wednesday 10/7: William Shakespeare, King Lear (essay and Acts 1 & 2, 1106-47.

________Spencer Michaels___________________________ _____________________________________

Friday 10/9: William Shakespeare, King Lear (Acts 3, 4, & 5, 1147-91)

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Week 7
Monday 10/12: William Shakespeare, Introductory essay and the Sonnets (1058-77).

_______Allison Maskaleris____________________________

Monday 10/12(afternoon) or Tuesday 10/13: Midterm Exam Review Session(s), time and number depending on your availability and interest. Click here for some study tips. Note the midterm is on Monday following Mid-Semester Break. If you cannot take it on that day, please see me to work out an alternative.

MID-SEMESTER BREAK [10/17-19]

Week 8

Monday 10/19: Mid-Semester Break

Wednesday 10/21: "Early Seventeenth Century" (1209-32), Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," (989-90); Ralegh, "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," "The Lie" and "The discovery of...Guiana" (879-82 and 885-87).

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Friday 10/23: Ben Jonson, Volpone, Acts I & II (1303-38).

______Albie Bennett______________________ ______________________________________

Week 9
Monday 10/26: Ben Jonson, Volpone, Acts III, IV, V (1338-93).

_______Kay Buckley_______________________ ______________________________________

Wednesday 10/28: Robert Herrick (1643-55).

______Jacqui Lamer_________________________

Wednesday, 10/28, at 4:00 PM, a public lecture by Earle Havens (Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Johns Hopkins University Libraries): "Scribal Culture in the Era of Print: Persecuted Catholics, Censored Books and Scribal Publication in the English Catholic Community, 1580-1610." [Co-Sponsors: The Brooke Peirce Center for Undergraduate Research in Special Collections and The Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe]

Friday 10/30: Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (993-97), and Queen Elizabeth I (688-703, especially the works indicated on her web page).

_________________________________________ ______Elizabeth Bellsey (QE I)________________

All Saint's Day (November 1), and its predecessor, All Hallowes Eve (October 31), are commonly associated with supernatural phenomena in the English literary tradition. For an image to inspire your Halloween reading, click here.

Week 10

Monday 11/2: Lady Mary Wroth (1451-61), Amelia Lanyer, "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" and "The Description of Cooke-ham" (1313-24 ),

_____________________________________ ____Sara Cooper (Lanyer)___________

Wednesday 11/4: John Donne, Songs and Sonnets (1260-95), Holy Sonnets and other sacred poems and prose (1295-1309).

_______Brittany Gemme_("Valediction Forbidding Mourning")_____ ________________________________________

Friday 11/6: George Herbert, The Temple (1605-25)

_______Bryan Steele____________________

Week 11

Monday 11/9: John Milton, Paradise Lost, opening biographical essay and Books I and II (1785-89, 1830-73).

____Thomas Curreri_____________ ______Joe Moran_____________________

Wednesday 11/11: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Books IV, IX, and XII (1887-1908, 1973-98, 2041-55).

Brett Youngerman, Edgar Kunz and Shiah Irgangladen, collaborators extraordinaire (some collaborative presentations would help make this more economical to preserve time for class discussion)

Friday 11/3: Andrew Marvell (1684-1724).

_____Rosalind Wills____________________

Week 12
Monday 11/16: Literature in Modern English--Lady Anne Halkett, The Memoirs (1764-67); Lucy Hutchinson, "Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson" (1757-60).

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Wednesday 11/18: Aphra Behn, introductory essay and Oroonoko, (2178-80 and 2183-2203, to the arrival in Surinam).

_____Ashley Haavik________________________

Friday 11/20: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, (2203-2226).

_____Sally Clegg__________________________

Week 13

Monday 11/23: Mary Astell, Some Reflections Upon Marriage (2284-88), Terms of art: essay, gender roles, foundation narratives Click here for an explanation of my intentions in clustering together the readings for this Friday and next Friday.

Wednesday 11/25 through Sunday 11/29--THANKSGIVING VACATION.

Week 14
Monday 11/30: Anne Finch, countess of Winchilsea (2294-8); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (2584-89); Matthew Prior (2298-2301)

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Wednesday 12/2: John Dryden, Mac Flecnoe (2111-17), excerpt from "Annus Mirabilis" (2085-6) and criticism selections (2125-33). Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal" and "Description of a City Shower" (2462-68 and 2301-3). John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester (2167-78). For Anniina Jokinen's Luminarium.org transcription of a selection of Rochester's other poetry, including the great "Satyre Against Reason and Mankynd" and his translation of "A Passage from Seneca," click here.

__Dan Benyishay (Swift)__________ ____Pilar Gimenez (Dryden)_________ ________________________________(some collaborative presentation would help to make time for class conversation)

Friday 12/4: William Congreve, The Way of the World (introductory essay and Acts I, II, and III--2226-48).

______Dan Brody__________________________ ________________________________(some collaborative presentation would help to make time for class conversation)

Week 15

Monday 12/7: William Congreve, The Way of the World (Acts IV and V--2248-84).

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