English 533—Renaissance Texts/Renaissance Theory
Prof. Charles Ross
Fall 2001; MWF 11:30: HEAV 101
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1 |
20-Aug |
Introduction |
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22-Aug |
More--Utopia |
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24-Aug |
Erasmus—Praise
of Folly |
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2 |
27-Aug |
No class
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29-Aug |
Wyatt
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31-Aug |
Critical
Theory: Elyot, Wilson, Gosson, Lodge, |
Rollins,
105-120; 587-595; 599-624 |
3 |
3-Sept. |
No class
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5-Sept. |
Spenser’s
Shepherd’s Calendar |
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7-Sept. |
Faerie
Queene 1 |
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4 |
10-Sept. |
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12-Sept. |
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14-Sept. |
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5 |
17-Sept. |
FQ
2.12
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19-Sept. |
FQ
6.10 |
pp.
1-79 |
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21-Sept. |
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80-147 |
6 |
24-Sept. |
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18-229 |
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26-Sept. |
“ 2 |
231-304 |
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“ 3 |
305-368 |
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28-Sept. |
“ 4 |
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7 |
1-Oct. |
“ 5 |
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3-Oct. |
Sidney,
Astrophel and Stella |
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5-Oct. |
Spenser:
Amoretti |
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8 |
8-Oct. |
No class
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10-Oct. |
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12-Oct. |
Shakespeare:
Sonnets |
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9 |
15-Oct. |
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17-Oct. |
Spenser:
Colin Clout’s Come Home Again |
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19-Oct. |
Marlowe,
“Hero and Leander” |
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10 |
22-Oct. |
Shakespeare,
“The Rape of Lucrece” |
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24-Oct. |
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26-Oct. |
Shakespeare,
“Venus and Adonis” |
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11 |
29-Oct. |
Spenser,
“Epithalamion” |
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31-Oct. |
Margaret
Roper and Queen Elizabeth—humanists |
Course
packet |
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2-Nov. |
Veronica
Franco |
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12 |
5-Nov. |
Aemelia
Lanyer |
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7-Nov. |
Gascoigne,
“Master F. J.” |
Rollins,
702-710 |
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9-Nov. |
Lyly,
Euphues |
Rolllins
71-736 |
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12-Nov. |
Nashe,
“The Unfortunate Traveler” |
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14-Nov. |
Bible
translations |
Rollins,
131-140 |
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16-Nov. |
Plutarch |
Rollins,
545-552, 565-567 |
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19-Nov. |
Harington’s
Ariosto |
Rollins
561-564 |
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26-Nov. |
The Countess of
Pembroke’s Arcadia
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28-Nov. |
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30-Nov. |
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15 |
3-Dec. |
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5-Dec. |
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7-Dec. |
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10-15
Dec.?? |
Final
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Portfolio assignments (4 pages each):
Write on one of the following:
Write on one of the following:
Research Paper:
Write a research paper on any work of sixteenth-century non-dramatic literature. 15 pages.
Final Exam:
1) Discuss the achievement of Aemelia Lanyer.
2) Compare Lyly’s style with that of two other prose writers.
Burckhardt, Jacob, The
Civilization of the Renaissance in
Chambers, R. W. Thomas More.
Lewis, C. S. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century.
Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love.
Mattingly, Garrett. The Armada.
Neale, J. E. Queen Elizabeth I.
Ringler, William. Stephen Gosson.
Rowse, A. L. The Elizabethan Renaissance.
Seehohm, Frederick. The
Stone, Lawrence. The Crisis of
the Aristocracy, 1558-1641.
Wallace, Malcolm William. The Life of Sir Philip Sidney.
Ward, A. W. The
Abrams, et. Al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1
Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning from
More to Shakespeare