Week 3--Geoffrey Chaucer, dream visions: the two kinds of "courtship," erotic and political / love, death & dream psychology

Tue. 2/12: Chaucer's The Boke of the Duchess, ll. 1-709. 

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Th. 2/14: Read Chaucer's The Boke of the Duchess, ll. 710-1334. 

___Jen Curtis!_________

Week 4-- Marie de France, Breton lais and their Middle English adaptations  Click here for some notes toward a structuralist analysis of the Middle English Breton lais.

Tue. 2/129: "Le Fresne," (pp. 61-67 in the Busby and Burgess edition) and the Middle English "Lay Le Freine," 

__Laura Reese__________________

Marie de France, "Lanval" (pp. 61-7 & 73-81, in the Busby and Burgess edition) and the Middle English: "Sir Launfal"

__Kelly Rankin!__________________ 

Th. 2/21: "Sir Degare,"

_____Meredith Steinfels_____________

"Emare,"

______Katie Callahan______________

Week 5--Middle English English Breton Lais with No Link to Marie.  / the "Gawain" romances  Click here for some analytical strategies for writing about folk-art literature in the lais, and the Gawain-romances, vs. the self-conscious, "high-art" literature of Chaucer and the Pearl-Poet.

Tue. 2/26: Sir Gowther"

_____Anna Waltman______________

"Kyng Orfew"

_____Kaitlyn Miller________________

Th. 2/28: "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle"

_____Catherine Abbondanza_______

"Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle"

_____Kellie Mecleary____________

Week 6--Alliterative verse: the Pearl-Poet--romance revisited; Christian and secular romance

Tue. 3/4: Read the Pearl-Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Fyt 1

_____Zach Shapiro_____________

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Fyt 2

_____Michael Saba______________

Th. 3/6:  Read the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Fyt 3

_____Rebecca Peller____________

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Fyt 4

_____Zach Martin________________

Week 7--Alliterative verse dream vision: the Pearl-Poet--mystical poetry and numerology; dream-visions meet mathematics.

Tue. 3/11: "Pearl,"  stanza groups 1 through 10

_____Amanda Bannon____________

Th. 3/13: Read "Pearl," stanza groups 11 through 20

_____Ashley Farris_______________

Friday 3/14: Deadline for Midterm Papers, 5 PM

Sat. 3/15-Sun. 3/23: Spring Break

Week 9--"the matter of Britain" in Arthurian romance

Tue. 4/1: Read "A Noble Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake," "The Tale of Gareth that was called Bewmaynes," and the following excerpts from the "Trystram" and "Sankgreall": "Lancelot and Elaine," "The Departure," "Lancelot," "Castle of Corbenic," and "Miracles of Galahad" (Malory 149-73, 477-506, 515-524, 551-558, 593-608).

_____Michael Saba________________(Lancelot)

_____Kaitlyn Miller_________________(Gareth)  [Arnie will handle the Trystram and Sankgreall readings]

Th. 4/3: Read Sir Thomas Malory's  Le Morte Darthur, "The Book of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere" to the end of "The Healing of Sir Urry" (611-669). 

_____Meredith Steinfels______________

Week 10--and Chaucer's Troilus (Book I), romance as comedy.

Tue. 4/8: Read the conclusion of "The Book of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere" and "The Most Piteous Tale of the Morte Arthur Saunz Guerdon" (673-726).

______Anna Waltman_______________(L&G)

______Amanda Bannon_____________("Morte")

Thurs. 4/10: Read Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Book I, ll. 1-938 (T reveals C's name to her uncle and P demands T repent to God of Love) and general introduction. 

______Jen Curtis!___________________

Week 11-- the Renaissance Chaucer; the "matter of Troy"; romance as erotic instruction (Troilus I1 and II)  For a hyperlink to an online text of Barry Windeatt's edition of Chaucer's Troilus, click here and scroll down to "Chaucer, Geoffrey."

Tue. 4/15: Read Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Book I, lines 939-1092 and Book II, lines 1-826

______Ashley Farris_________________ Troilus and Criseyde, Book I, lines 939-1092 and Book II 1-385 (to the end of Pandarus' first speech to Criseyde)

______Zach Martin__________________  Troilus and Criseyde, Book II, lines 386-826 (Criseyde's response, her "enamourment," to the beginning of Antigone's song)

Th. 4/17: Read Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Book II, lines 827-1757 (P has convinced C to go to "hele" T in his "sickbed" and the narrator asks of T "O myghty God, what shal he seye?").   

______Catherine Abbondanza__________

Week 12--romance as erotic instruction and tragedy (Troilus III--IV)

Tue. 4/22: Read Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Book III, lines 1-924 (P is midway through persuading C to allow T to come to her bed).

______Kellie Mecleary________________

Th. 4/24: Read Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Book III, lines 925-1414 (the lovers are together at last)

______Kelly Rankin___________________

Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Book III, lines 1415-1820 and Book IV, lines 1-140 (from the lovers' first parting to the scene in the Greek camp when C's father has persuaded the Greeks to trade the captive Antenor for Criseyde).

______Laura Reese__________________

Week 13--romance as tragedy (Troilus IV-V)

Tue. 4/29: Read Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Book IV, lines 141-1078 (T has attempted to determine if C is doomed by fate to leave him, just before P enters).

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Th. 5/1: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book IV, lines 1079-1428 (to the point at which Criseyde has almost persuaded Troilus he should let her go to the Greek camp on her promise to return)

______Rebecca Peller________________

Book IV, lines 1429-1701 and V lines 1-196 (T tries to persuade her one last time and C promises again to return by the tenth day, to when T has just returned from leading C out of Troy and handing her horse's reigns to Diomede).

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Week 14--romance as transcendence (Troilus V); Is the Troilus Chaucer's "masterpiece"?

Tue. 5/6: Last Class: Read Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Book V, lines 197-1869. 

______Zach Shapiro__________________