English 533
Renaissance
Texts/Renaissance Theory
Prof. Charles Ross
Fall 2006
MWF 3:30
Texts:
Sidney, Philip. The
Old
Sidney, Philip. The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. Penguin.
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Ed. A. C. Hamilton. Longman’s.
Elizabethan Prose Fiction.
Portfolio assignments
(4 pages each):
A. Write on one of the following:
B. 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 presence or absence of moral action in Elizabethan prose fiction.
2) Weigh the relative important of story and style in the development of English poetry.
There will be a field trip to
Week |
Date |
Topic |
1 |
21-Aug |
Introduction |
Prose |
|
|
|
23-Aug |
More—Utopia Preface, book 1 |
|
25-Aug |
More—Utopia book 2 |
2 |
28-Aug |
Erasmus—Praise of Folly |
|
30-Aug |
Critical
Theory: Elyot, Wilson, Gosson, Lodge |
|
|
|
|
1-Sept |
|
3 |
4-Sept. |
No class
|
|
6-Sept. |
|
|
8-Sept. |
|
4 |
11-Sept. |
Sidney:
Old Arcadia 3 |
|
13-Sept. |
|
|
15-Sept. |
|
5 |
18-Sept. |
Sidney:
New
Arcadia 1 Outline of the New Arcadia |
|
20-Sept. |
|
|
22-Sept. |
Sidney:
New Arcadia 2 |
6 |
25-Sept. |
|
Poetry |
|
|
|
27-Sept. |
Wyatt
and Surrey (Tottel’s Miscellany) |
|
29-Sept. |
|
7 |
2-Oct. |
No Class |
|
4-Oct. |
Spenser:
Amoretti
and Epithalamion |
|
6-Oct. |
Sidney:
Astrophel and Stella |
8 |
9-Oct. |
No Class |
|
11-Oct. |
|
|
13-Oct. |
|
9 |
16-Oct. |
Aemelia
Lanyer |
Spenser |
|
|
|
18-Oct. |
|
|
20-Oct. |
|
10 |
23-Oct. |
FQ
1.7-12 (Despair)
|
|
25-Oct. |
|
|
27-Oct. |
FQ
3.5-8 |
11 |
30-Oct. |
FQ
3.9-12 |
|
1-Nov |
Marlowe,
“Hero and Leander” |
|
3-Nov. |
Shakespeare,
“Venus and Adonis” |
12 |
6-Nov. |
Shakespeare,
“The Rape of Lucrece” |
|
8-Nov. |
FQ
6.1-4 |
|
10-Nov. |
FQ
6.5-8 |
13 |
13-Nov. |
FQ
6.9.12 |
Prose Fiction |
|
|
|
15-Nov. |
Gascoigne,
“Master F. J.” |
|
17-Nov. |
Lyly,
Euphues |
|
20-Nov. |
Nashe,
“The Unfortunate Traveler” |
Translation |
||
14 |
27-Nov. |
Bible
translations |
|
29-Nov. |
Surrey,
Phaer, Stanyhurst, Douglas: Virgil’s Aeneid |
|
31-Nov. |
Marlowe: Lucan’s Pharsalia
|
15 |
4-Dec. |
Florio:
Montaigne’s Essays |
|
6-Dec. |
Harington’s
Preface to Orlando Furioso |
|
8-Dec. |
Richard
Hakluyt |
Burckhardt, Jacob, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.
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.
Parker, Patricia. Literary Fat
Ladies
Ringler, William. Stephen Gosson.
Rowse, A. L. The Elizabethan Renaissance.
Seehohm, Frederick. The Oxford Reformers.
Stone, Lawrence. The Crisis of
the Aristocracy, 1558-1641.
Wallace, Malcolm William. The Life of Sir Philip Sidney.
Ward, A. W. The Cambridge History of English Literature, Vol. 3.
Abrams, et. Al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1
Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning from
More to Shakespeare