| Week |
Date |
topic |
activity |
reading and writing due |
links |
| I |
3/27 |
Course introduction
Utopia |
Gerrit Dou: Prince Rupert as the Prophet Samuel taught by Eli
George Wither: Emblem
Creative projects |
469--498 (Introduction)
Utopia Book 1
|
Thomas More Luminarium
More and his Circle
"Shakespeare's Clout"
Oxford English Dictionary |
| |
3/29 |
Utopia |
|
Utopia Book 2 (excerpts) 511-523 |
Utopia Commercial [student creative project] |
| II |
4/3 |
Elizabeth and Ralegh |
|
593-600
878-889 |
Luminarium--
Elizabeth
Ditchley portrait Luminarium--Ralegh |
| |
4/5 |
Marlowe, Tamburlaine |
|
1. Prologue and Act I
2. summary of Acts 2-5 and Thirst of Reign speech from Act II
3. Act 5
|
Luminarium-Marlowe
On Renaissance Pacifism and Militarism
|
| III |
4/10 |
Shakespeare: Henry V |
quiz |
Henry V |
|
| |
4/12
|
Shakespeare: Henry V |
student performance of Act 4, Scene 1 |
Henry V
watch Branagh version
paper #1 |
"Holy War in Henry Fifth
|
| IV |
4/17 |
Spenser, The Faerie Queene |
|
614-616, 622-624, 628-652 |
|
| |
4/19 |
Spenser, The Faerie Queene |
quiz |
652-772 |
Durer's Apocalypse
Durer's Knight |
| V |
4/24 |
Songs and Sonnets |
Renaisssance song
|
Sidney 1(917), 31(922), 39 (922)
Shakespeare 1028-1036, 1040
|
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| |
4/26 |
Twelfth Night |
|
1043-1074
paper #2
topic suggestions |
510 Players Twelfth Night
A Map of Illyria |
| VI |
5/1 |
Twelfth Night |
quiz
Act 3 Scene 1 performed |
1074-1105
watch Nunn version |
|
| |
5/3 |
Shakespeare in Love |
|
watch the movie
|
Shakespeare in Love Web Page |
| VII |
5/8 |
Bacon |
|
paper #3
topic suggestions
Essays 1528-1536, 1541
Novum Organum |
David Rendel's project
The Mind Unbound (Michael Sweeney) |
| |
5/10 |
Donne |
|
1233-1242, 1256, 1268-1271 |
Luminarium--Donne
"Teaching in the School of Donne"
Donne movie |
| VIII |
5/15 |
Herbert and the Early Seventeenth Century |
|
1209-1225
1595-1615
Creative Project Prospectus |
Luminarium--Herbert
George Herbert site
Cynthia Gaw's project |
| |
5/17 |
Wroth
Marvell |
|
1422-1432
1684-1692, 1698-1704
paper #4
possible topics |
Luminarium--Wroth
Luminarium--Marvell
King James's Banqueting House |
| IX |
5/22 |
Milton |
quiz |
1801-1811--Aeropagitica
1815-95--Paradise Lost, Books 1-4 |
A reader's guide to Paradise Lost
|
| |
5/24 |
Milton |
Images in the Sistine Chapel: Separating Light from Darkness, God, Creation of Adam, The Fall
Michaelangelo's David
Botticelli's Venus |
1934-1986--Paradise Lost, Books 7-9
|
Paintings and Illustrations of Paradise Lost
"The Prophet Disarmed: Milton and the Quakers" |
| X |
5/29
no class |
|
|
paper #5 |
|
| |
5/31 |
English in America
Creative Project Presentations |
|
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet on NPR |
|
| XI |
6/5
7:30-10 AM
|
Final Exam |
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