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Date
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Assigned
reading & course content
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9-16
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Introduction to
the course; ¡§The Dream of the Rood¡¨; ¡§The Wanderer¡¨
Video: Old English
Literature (18 min.)
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The
Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)
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Old
English Literature
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9-23
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Anonymous:
Beowulf
(pp. 21-24, 28-40, 43-49, 50-51, 55-63, 68)
Video: Beowulf
(27 min.)
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Middle
English Literature
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9-30
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Chaucer:
from The Canterbury Tales: ¡§The General Prologue,¡¨
¡§The Wife of Bath¡¦s Prologue and Tale¡¨
Video: The
Canterbury Tales I (30 min.)
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10-7
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Chaucer:
from The Canterbury Tales: ¡§The Pardoner¡¦s Prologue
and Tale¡¨
Video: The Canterbury Tales II (30 min.)
(Maybe ¡§Miller¡¦s Prologue and Tale¡¨)
Anonymous: Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight (pp. 200-54)
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10-14
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Malory:
from Morte D¡¦Arthur: ¡§The Death of Arthur¡¨ (pp.354-60 )
Video: The Legend of the King Anonymous: The
Second Shepherds¡¦ Play (pp.319-44) Popular Ballads:
¡§Lord Randall¡¨; ¡§Edward¡¨; ¡§Sir Patrick Spens¡¨
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The
Sixteenth Century (1485-1603) (pp.
395-414)
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10-21
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More:
from Utopia, ¡§More Meets a Returned Traveler¡¨ p.415-,
¡§The Gold and Silver¡¨ p. 422-, ¡§Marriage Customs¡¨ p.
424-, ¡§Conclusion¡¨ p. 429-
Sidney: from Astrophil and Stella: #31, 39
Video: Reformation-the Age of Revolt (23 min.)
1st position
paper due
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10-28
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Spenser:
The Fairy Queene, Book I,
Cantos 1-3
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11-4
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Marlowe:
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; ¡§The Passionate
Shepherd to His Love¡¨
Video: The Spirit of Renaissance (30
min.)
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11-11
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MIDTERM EXAM
(Film: A Man for All Seasons)
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11-18
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Shakespeare:
Sonnets #1, 3, 12, 18, 20, 60, 97,
116, 129, 130 Excerpts from Hamlet
Video: to be announced
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The
Seventeenth Century (1603-1660) (pp.
1069-80)
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11-25
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Donne:
¡§The Canonization¡¨; ¡§The
Flea¡¨; ¡§A Valediction Forbidding Mourning¡¨
Jonson:
¡§On My First Son¡¨; ¡§Song: To Celia¡¨
Marvell:
¡§To His Coy Mistress¡¨; ¡§The Definition of Love¡¨ Bacon:
¡§On Truth¡¨
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12-2
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Milton:
¡§Lycidas¡¨ 1450-57; from Paradise Lost: Book 10,
1593-1606
2nd position paper due
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12-9
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NO CLASS
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The
Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785)
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12-16
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Dryden:
¡§MacFlecknoe¡¨; ¡§A Song for St. Cecilia¡¦s Day¡¨
Video:
to be announced
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12-23
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Congreve:
excerpts from The Way of the World
Video: The Way of
the World (50 min.)
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12-30
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Swift:
Selections from Gulliver¡¦s Travels; ¡§A Modest
Proposal¡¨
Video:
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1-6
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Pope:
¡§The Rape of Lock¡¨
3rd position paper due
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1-13
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FINAL
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