English 204: Warmup Assignment

read:

"The Early Modern Period"--640-661

Henry VIII [click thumbnail]

and

Thomas More's Utopia Book 1--686-713

Map of Utopia [click thumbnail]

write:

Find three or more passages in the Longman Introduction's description of the Early Modern period in England that are exemplified in the account of social, economic, legal, political and cultural conditions provided in Book I of Thomas More's Utopia. Copy out the corresponding passages in both texts, including page numbers. Be ready to discuss ways that the literary text conveys historical information and that the historical text illuminates the literary one.