| Week | Date | Topic/Activity |
Text | Work due
|
Links |
| I | 1/8
| Introduction--Emblemes | George
Wither Emblem
Lecture Notes |
569-588[in Longman Anthology unless noted otherwise] |
Luminarium--home page OED--find
any word Bible
Browser--find any passage or reference Search
Shakespeare The
Bestiary Index More
Emblems [lots!] |
| | 1/10
| Humanists and their Texts Cast
Othello 4.2.1-98 | Thomas
More's Utopia Book 1 More and
his circle | 636-664 |
Luminarium |
| | 1/12 | The
Utopian quest | Thomas More's Utopia
Book 2 More and his circle |
664-706 | |
| II | 1/15 | holiday | | | |
| | 1/17 |
Exploration and Exploitation Gloriana--The Cult of Elizabeth |
Sir Walter Ralegh
Elizabeth
Shakespeare
in Love excerpts Lecture
notes |
1046-1077; "The
Lie"
1021-1035
Watch Shakespeare in Love |
Luminarium
Luminarium
Shakespeare
in Love Web
Page |
| | 1/19 | Aristocracy
and Poetry | Philip Sidney Mary
Herbert lecture notes Paper
Assignment | 911-925; 987-993;
1010-1015 | Luminarium Luminarium |
| III | 1/22 |
London Theatre--The Heroic and Liminal Cast
The Tempest 2.2 | William
Shakespeare: Sonnets, Othello Othello
scene summary lecture
notes | sonnets 18, 20, 29, 73,
87, 93, 152 1180-1213 Acts 1 and 2 |
Mr. William Shakespeare and
the Internet Triangulating
Shakespeare Shakespeare's
Globe 2000 |
| | 1/24 | Rhetoric--Persuasion
and Evil | William Shakespeare: Othello study
questions on Othello 3.3, the seduction scene |
1213-1247 Acts 3 and 4 view BBC[Anthony Hopkins/Bob Hoskins]or Oliver
Parker [Laurence Fishburn, Kenneth Branagh]film |
|
| | 1/26 |
Tragedy and Outrage perform
Act 4 scene 2 performance
now online | William
Shakespeare: Othello | 1247-1260
Act 5 | |
| IV | 1/29 | The
Renaissance Bible: Creation and Genealogy
|
King James Bible: Genesis Midterm
prep Lecture
notes | paper
#1 due sample
paper #1 chapters 1-10, 12, 17-19, 21-22, 27-33, 37-48 |
Frontispiece and Prefatory
Letter Luminarium--King
James The banqueting
house Images in the Sistine Chapel: Creating "the bigger light and less,"
God, Creation
of Adam, Adam,
The Fall, The
Flood Shakespeare
and the Bible, Introduction
[pdf file] |
| | 1/31 | class
cancelled because of trial | | | |
| | 2/2 | National
Liberation and Conquest | King James
Bible: Exodus Lecture:
"Moses and Machiavellism" | chapters 1-20, 32, 40 | Michaelangelo's
Moses "Holy
War in Henry V" |
| V | 2/5 | Parable
and Vision | King James Bible: Matthew
Revelation | chapters 1-11,13,26-28
chapters 1, 4-7,
17-22 quiz on bible
readings | Renaissance
Paintings of Gospel Subjects Durer's
Woodcuts of the Apocalypse |
| | 2/7 |
Masque and Magic Perform Act 2 Scene 2
online
video[hot!] picture
gallery | William Shakespeare:
The Tempest | Acts 1-3 Lecture:
Genesis and The Tempest Suggestions
for Creative Project | |
| | 2/9 | Field
Trip to Getty Museum
Picture
Gallery | GWR
Exam in class | | Getty
Website |
| VI | 2/12 | Brave
New Worlds; Cry Freedom | William Shakespeare:
The Tempest Lecture: "A Masque of Revelation:
The Tempest as Apocalypse" | Acts 4-5
| |
| | 2/14 | The
New Atlantis: Scientists | Francis Bacon
Lecture notes |
Bacon texts on website: New
Atlantis, Novum
Organum Matthew
13:10
Mark
10:15 | Luminarium
|
| | 2/16 | The
Literary Essay | Francis Bacon | 1655-1662
Essays Online Midterm
Questions specified | |
| VII | 2/19 | holiday | | | |
| | 2/21 |
Biblical poetry, sacred and profane
Holy
Sonnets | King James
Bible: Psalms, Song of Solomon
Lecture notes John
Donne: Holy Sonnets
Lecture Notes
| Take Home
Midterm Exam due Psalms 1,2,19,22-24,42,51,137,148,150
Song of Solomon 1-4
John Donne: Expostulation
19, poems--1564-1571 Topics for Paper#2 | |
| | 2/23 | "Metaphysical"
lyrics | John Donne: Songs and
Sonnets Lady Mary Wroth Lecture Notes | 1549-1563
1571-1578 | Luminarium
"Teaching
in the School of Donne" Luminarium
|
| VIII | 2/26 | Language
and Spirit | George Herbert: The Temple Lecture
Notes | 1583-1591; 1596-1607 |
Luminarium
Cynthia
Gaw's "Herbert:Pastoral Poet" George
Herbert site |
| | 2/28 | Playing
with words | George Herbert: The Temple |
1591-1596
The
H. Scriptures | |
| | 3/2 | The
Tribe of Ben | Ben Jonson Robert Herrick
Lecture
notes | 1531-1541 1578-1583 Last
day for creative Project Prospectus --worth 10% |
Luminarium |
| IX | 3/5 | "Lady
of Cambridge" and Holy Warrior | Milton:
early work Lecture notes
| paper #2
due 1731-1738; 1743-1755 |
Luminarium |
| | 3/7 | The
Last Epic | Milton: Paradise
Lost 1
Lecture Notes |
1755-1776 | Areader's
guide to Paradise Lost |
| | 3/9 | Demons,
Angels and People | Milton,
Paradise Lost 2-8 Lecture Notes |
1776-1843;
Six Days of Creation[Book
7:192-568];
1844-1854 quiz |
Paintings and Illustrations
of Paradise Lost |
| X | 3/12 | Falling
from Grace | Milton, Paradise
Lost 9-12 Lecture Notes |
1854-1905 | "The
Prophet Disarmed: Milton and the Quakers" |
| | 3/14 | Review | Concluding
Paradise Lost Exam Prep | | |
| | 3/16 | Project
presentations | Program |
| |
| |
3/19 1:10-3:10 | Final
Exam | |
| |
