Fall 2011 In-Class Presentation Schedule
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Week 3
Monday 9/12: Chaucer, Canterbury
Tales, "Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" (256-84).
_________________________________________(Prologue) ________________________________(Tale)
Wednesday 9/14: Everyman (463-84).
____Angela Gasca-Lozano__________
Friday 9/16: Julian of Norwich (371-82) and Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (383-97).
____________________________________(Julian) ________Sasha Walsh__________(Kempe)
Week 4
First Stage of the "Getting to
Know Some Old Things Very Well" Project--optional extra credit work in Special
Collections: MS to Print, Editing Chaucer, from Medieval (1478) to Renaissance
(1598) to Modern (1721)
Monday 9/19: "Sixteenth
Century" background (485-513) and Sir
Thomas More, Utopia (518-90).
_____Melissa Grow_________________________(More)
Wednesday 9/21: Sir Thomas Hoby (English translator) & Baldassari Castiglioni (Italian author), The Courtier or Il Cortegiano (645-61).
_______________________________
Friday 9/23: [National Punctuation Day (9/24)!] 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 (592-606 and 607-615).
________________________________(Wyatt) _____________________________(Surrey)
Week 5
Monday 9/26: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil
and Stella (975-92)
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Wednesday 9/28: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and "Epithalamion" (902-16).
_______________________________(Amoretti) ___________________________(Epithalamion)
_____Jasper Cole_________________
Week
6
Monday 10/3: Christopher Marlowe, The
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (scenes 6-13, 1041-57).
____Raya Bichefsky___________________________
Wednesday 10/5: William Shakespeare, King Lear (essay and Acts 1 & 2, 1139-1180.
____________________________________(I) _______________________________(II)
MID-SEMESTER BREAK [10/7-9]
Week 7
Monday 10/10: William Shakespeare, King Lear
(Acts 3, 4, & 5, 1180-1227) Also, by this
Friday, if you are not taking or have not already taken English 200, you must make an appointment with Randy Smith of the library to receive
some one-on-one or small group instruction in the use of the MLA Bibliography
and LION databases.
Click here to learn
more about this requirement.
____Inga Schmidt (V)__________________
Wednesday 10/12: William Shakespeare, Biographical essay and Sonnets (1058-77).
____Molly Wallner____________________
Wednesday 10/12 (afternoon) or Friday 10/14 (morning): Midterm Exam Review Session(s),
Thursday, 10/13: 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.
Week 8
Monday 10/17: Midterm Exam--Medieval to Early Renaissance Literature. Click here for some study tips.
Friday 10/21: Ben Jonson, Volpone, Acts I & II (1334-70).
___________________________________(I) ________________________________(II)
Week 9
Monday 10/24: Ben Jonson, Volpone,
Acts III, IV, V (1370-1427).
_________________________________(III) __________________________________(IV) ________________________________(V)
Wednesday 10/26 Robert Herrick (1653-66).
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Friday 10/28: Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (993-97), and Queen Elizabeth I (688-703, especially the works indicated on her web page).
___________________________________(Herbert) ______Maggie McManus______________(QE1)
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 10/31: Lady Mary Wroth (1451-61), Amelia Lanyer, "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" and "The Description of Cooke-ham" (1313-24), ______Emily McCormack_____________(Wroth) ____________________________________(Lanyer)
Wednesday 11/2: John Donne, Songs and Sonnets (1260-95), Holy Sonnets and other sacred poetry and prose (1295-1309).
___Becca Titus_(HS #14)______ ___________
Friday 11/4: George Herbert (1605-25)
___Anna Genestreti_________________
Week 11
Monday 11/7: John Milton, Paradise Lost, opening biographical essay and Books I and II (1785-9, 1830-73).
____Joel Ranadive____________________(I) _____Bea McQueen________________(II)
Wednesday 11/9: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Books IV, IX, and XII (1887-1908, 1973-98, 2041-55).
____Simon Reichley________________________________(IV) _________________________________(IX) ________________________________(XII)
Friday 11/11: Andrew Marvell (1684-1724).
____________________________________
Week 12
Monday 11/14: Literature in Modern English--Lady Anne Halkett, The Memoirs (1764-67);
Lucy Hutchinson, "Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson" (1757-60).
________________________________(Halkett) _______________________________(Hutchinson) Parliamentarians vs. Royalists: Testing Literary Style for Traces of Social and Political Beliefs
Wednesday 11/16: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, (2178-80, and 2183-2203, to the arrival in Surinam).
________Nancy Terry___________________
Friday 11/18: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, (2203-2226).
________Vincent Dajani_________________
Week 13
Monday 11/21: Mary Astell, Some Reflections Upon Marriage (2284-88),
_____Emilie Lewis________________________
Wednesday 11/23 through Sunday 11/27--THANKSGIVING VACATION.
Week 14
Monday 11/28:
Anne
Finch, countess of Winchilsea (2294-8);
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (2584-89);
Matthew Prior (2298-2301)
_____________________________________(Finch) _____________________________(Montagu) ___________________________(Prior)
Wednesday 11/30: 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.
___________________________(Dryden) _____Christine Cherry___(Swift) ________________________________(Rochester)
Friday 12/2: William Congreve, The Way of the World (introductory essay and Acts I, II, and III).
____________________________(I) ________________________________(II) __________________________________(III)
Week 15
Monday 12/5: William Congreve, The Way of the World (Acts IV and V--2248-84).
___________________________(IV) __________________________________(V)