English 354/554 Literature of the English Renaissance

9/6 - W - Introductions, Syllabus, etc

9/8 - F - Library - Rm 2023A               

                Handout: Stephanie Jed

                Renaissance Humanism: Backgrounds

9/11 - M - Petrarch, handout, prose

                Abrams, 469-498 (Introductory Material for the Sixteenth Century)

                Book Review (Stirm): Crawford, Patricia and Sara Mendelson.  Women in Early Modern England

9/13 - W - Petrarch, handout, sonnets

9/14 - STC/BWWP Exercise Due

9/15 - F - Machiavelli, The Prince (reserve): I-III, V, IX, XV-XXI (about 50 pages)

9/18 - M -Castiglione - The Book of the Courtier (reserve, ask for the translation by Thomas Hoby): Book I (Not Hoby’s intro, though you can read that if you want) (about 75 pages)

(esp. sections on Elisabetta Gonzaga, perfect courtier, grace, sprezzatura, beauty, love)

9/20 - W -Castiglione - The Book of the Courtier (see above)

                Michel de Montaigne, “Of Friendship,” “Of Books” (reserve)

                Book Review: Travitsky, Betty and Adele Seeff.  Attending to Women in E.M. England

                Renaissance Humanism in England

9/22 - F - Thomas More - Utopia (Handout) (intro material, Book I)

9/25 - M - Thomas More - Utopia (Book II)

                William Harrison, The Description of England (Handout)

                Book Review: Herman, Peter, ed.  Rethinking the Henrician Era

9/27 - W - Thomas More - Utopia

Greenblatt and Gunn, Redrawing the boundaries (reserve), 41-63

                Book Review: Harris, Jonathan Gil.  Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic

9/29 - F - Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster (reserve), First Book

                Montaigne, “Of the Education of Children” (reserve)

                Book Review: Cressy, David.  Birth, Marriage, and Death

10/2 - M - Thomas Wyatt, 525-537 (esp. 527, 529, 530)

                Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 569-577 (esp. 570, 574, 575)

                Book Review: Hedley, Jane.  Power in Verse

10/4 - W - Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, 863-868

                Book Review: Finucci, Valeria, and Regina Schwartz, eds.  Desire in the Renaissance

10/6 - F - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 614-771 (Intro materials + Bk I)

                Book Review: Cressy, David.  Travesties and Transgressions

10/9 - M - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 614-771 (Intro materials + Bk I)

                Book Review: Lewis, Jayne.  Mary Queen of Scotts: Romance and Nation

10/11 - W - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 614-771 (Intro materials + Bk I)

                Kelly, Joan, “Did Women Have a Renaissance?”

                Macfarlane, Alan.  Marriage and Love in England 1300-1840

10/13 - F - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 772-862, (Bk III materials)

                Book Review: Traub, Valerie, et al, eds.  Feminist Readings of E.M. Culture 

10/16 - M - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 772-862, (Bk III materials)

                Book Review: Kegl, Rosemary.  The Rhetoric of Concealment

10/18 - W - Walter Raleigh, 878-884

10/20 - F - Midterm

10/23 - M - Philip Sidney, Defense of Poesy, 933-955

10/25 - W - Philip Sidney, 909-931

                Book Review: Wayne, Valerie, ed.  Edmund Tilney, The Flower of Friendship

10/27 - F - William Shakespeare, 1026-1042 (esp. #1, 18, 20, 55, 73, 116, 129, 130)

10/30 - M - William Shakespeare, 1026-1042 (esp. #1, 18, 20, 55, 73, 116, 129, 130)

11/1 - W - Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander, 970-989

                Popular Culture and Popular Drama

11/3 - F - Wakefield Second Shepherds’ Play, 391-418

                Book Review: Cox, John and David Scott Kastan.  A New History of Early English Drama

11/6 - M - Wakefield Second Shepherds’ Play, 391-418

                                Book Review:  Fumerton, Patricia, and Simon Hunt, eds.  Renaissance Culture and the Everyday

11/8 - W - John Skelton, “The Tunnying of Eleanor Runnyng” (Handout)

                Book Review: Hillman, David and Carla Mazzio, eds.  The Body in Parts

11/10 - F - William Shakespeare, As You Like It

                Book Review: Howard, Jean.  The Stage and Social Struggle in E.M. England

11/13 - M - William Shakespeare, As You Like It

                Research Paper Abstract Due

                Book Review: Kastan, David Scott.  Shakespeare After Theory

11/15 - W - William Shakespeare, As You Like It

                Book Review: Sanders, Eve.  Gender and Literacy on Stage in E.M. England

11/17 - F - Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

11/20 - M - Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

                Book Review: Bartels, Emily.  Spectacles of Strangeness

11/22 - W- Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

                Annotated Bibliography Due

                Book Review:  DiGangi, Mario.  The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama

11/27 - M - Robert Greene, A Notable Discovery of Cozenage (Handout)

                Book Review: Amussen, Susan Dwyer.  An Ordered Society

11/29 - W - Discourses of Exploration and Discovery (889-905)

                Walter Raleigh, 885-888

                Michel de Montaigne, “Of Cannibals” (reserve)

                Book Review: Linton, Joan Pong.  The Romance of the New World

                Draft Meetings for Papers   (we will use class and other time to meet in groups)

12/1 - F - Draft Meetings

12/4 - M - Draft Meetings

                Religion and the State

12/6 - W -  John Foxe, Acts and Monuments (handout)

                Bible Translations (539-542)

                Book of Common Prayer, 553-556

12/8 - F - Richard Hooker, “Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity,” 558-563

                Elizabeth Tudor, 593-600

                Homily, 556-558

12/11 - M - Anne Locke, “Meditation of a Penitent Sinner” (Handout)

12/13 - W - Mary Sidney Herbert, 957-964; Wyatt, handout

12/14 - Thursday - Final Draft of Research Paper Due

12/15 - F - Finishing up, review

12/21 - Final Exam - 10am-12noon