TENTATIVESCHEDULE
 
Sept.
   21  Introduction: the Medieval England  (video) 
   28  Beowulf  29-63
Oct. 
   5    Beowulf 
   12  Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400): The Canterbury Tales: "The General Prologue" 
   19  Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: "The Wife of Bath Prologue & Tale"(by students)
   26  Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: "The Nun's Priest's Tale"(by students)
Nov. 
BACKGROUNDS
   2    Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: “T"The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale"(by students)
   9    Video on Chaucer 
   16  Langland (ca. 1330-87): Piers Plowman  254-59; 263-83Piers PlowmanNEW(by students)
   23  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1357-1400)  Part I and II 
         Sir Gawain and the Green KnnightNEW(by students)
   30  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part III and IV
Dec. 
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH DRAMA
   7    Medieval Lyrics:  "Alison"; "I Have a Young Sister"; "The Cuckoo Song"; 
         "I Sing of a Maiden"; "Adam Lay Bound"; "The Corpus Christi Carol" 
   14  Medieval Plays: The Chester Play of Noah's FloodNEW(by students)
   21  The Wakefield Second Shepherds' PlayNEW(by students)
   28  Everyman(by students)(after 1485)
Jan. 
   4    Ballads: "Lord Randall"; "Bonny Barbara Allan"; "The Three Ravens"; "Sir Patrick Spens" 
         Malory (ca. 1405-71):  from Morte Darthur  (Video) 
   11  Malory:  from Morte Darthur 
   18  Final Exam