Fall 2012 In-Class Presentation Schedule
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Week 3
Monday 9/10: Chaucer, Canterbury
Tales, "Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" .
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Friday 9/14: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe .
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Week 4
Monday 9/17: "Sixteenth
Century" background and Sir
Thomas More, Utopia
____Hayim Wolf___________________
Wednesday 9/19: Sir Thomas Hoby (English translator) & Baldassari Castiglioni (Italian author), The Courtier or Il Cortegiano
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Friday 9/21: Start of literature originally written in Early Modern English--Please read this web page for guidance for the rest of the course readings! Sir Thomas Wyatt & Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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Week 5
Monday 9/24: [National
Punctuation Day (9/24)!] Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil
and Stella
_____Rachel Cooke_________________
Wednesday 9/26: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and "Epithalamion" .
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Week
6
Monday 10/1: Christopher Marlowe, The
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (scenes 6-13).
____Jaclynn Mehl________________
Wednesday 10/3: William Shakespeare, King Lear (essay and Acts 1 & 2)
____Bird Motter__(I)_______________ ________________________________
Friday 10/5: William Shakespeare, King Lear (Acts 3, 4, & 5)
________________________________ _____Devorah Sperling-Billings (V)_________
Week 7
Monday 10/8: William Shakespeare,
Biographical essay and Sonnets
____Jisun Lee___________________
Thursday, 10/11: FIRST PAPER DUE by 5 PM in an email to me as an attached Word or RTF file--MAXIMUM LENGTH, 3 PAGES OF TEXT EXCLUDING NOTES AND "WORKS CITED" SECTION.
Friday 10/12-Sunday 10/13: MIDSEMESTER HOLIDAY
Week 8 16-17 Authors in Time: Who Was Alive When, and What Was Published in their Lifetimes?
Monday 10/15: Midterm Exam--Medieval to Early Renaissance Literature.
Wednesday 10/17: "Early Seventeenth Century English Literature and Cultual Change," Literature assignments: Two lyrics and a prose sales pitch from a nobleman to his queen/banker--Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,"; Ralegh, "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," "The Lie" and "The discovery of...Guiana"; an early printed poetic "blog" attacking Charles I for failing to prepare to defend the realm against a second Spanish Armada--The spyte of Spaine, OR A thankefull remembrance of GODS Mercie in Britanes [d]eliuerie from the Spanish Armado. 1588. (Anonymous, Edinburgh: The Heirs of Andro Hart, 1628).
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Friday 10/19: Ben Jonson, Volpone, Acts I & II .
_____Eliana Zimet___(I)_______________ _____Victoria Nolan (II)______________
Week 9
Monday 10/22: Ben Jonson, Volpone,
Acts III, IV, V.
_____Lisa Charron___________________ ________________________________
Wednesday 10/24 Robert Herrick .
_____Julian Manning___________________
Friday 10/26: Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke , and Queen Elizabeth I especially the works indicated on her web page).
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Week 10 Second Stage of the "Getting to Know Some Old Things Very Well" Project--optional extra credit work in Special Collections: Medieval to Renaissance receptions of Chaucer and English legendary history
Monday 10/29: Lady Mary Wroth, Amelia Lanyer, "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" and "The Description of Cooke-ham."
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Wednesday 10/31: John Donne, Songs and Sonnets, Holy Sonnets and other sacred poetry and prose.
______Elise Burke_________________
Friday 11/2: George Herbert
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Week 11
Monday 11/5: John Milton, Paradise Lost, opening biographical essay and Books I and II.
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Wednesday 11/7: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Books IV, IX, and XII.
_____Angela Buxton________________
Friday 11/9: Andrew Marvell.
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Week 12
Monday 11/12: Literature in Modern English--Lady Anne Halkett, The Memoirs;
Lucy Hutchinson, "Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson"
_____Kelsey Newland______________ _____________________________
Wednesday 11/14: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, to the arrival in Surinam).
_____Bradley Wright_______________
Friday 11/16: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, (conclusion of events in Surinam).
_____Sierra Troy-Regier______________
Week 13
Monday 11/19: Mary Astell, Some Reflections Upon Marriage,
_____Hannah Fenster________________
Wednesday 11/21 through Sunday 11/25--THANKSGIVING VACATION.
Week 14
Monday 11/26:
Anne
Finch, countess of Winchilsea;
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu;
Matthew Prior
____Laura Tims (Anne Finch)________ _____Lucie Camp (Montagu)______________
Wednesday 11/28: John Dryden, Mac Flecnoe, excerpt from "Annus Mirabilis" and criticism selections. Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal" and "Description of a City Shower". John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester
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Friday 11/30: William Congreve, The Way of the World (introductory essay and Acts I, II, and III).
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Week 15
Monday 12/3: William Congreve, The Way of the World (Acts IV and V).
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