Engl. 434: Syllabus

Focus Questions #1 Due: "The Early Modern Period" (Longman Anthology of British Literature, 569-588), Louis Montrose article (Readings #1), E.M. W. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture and Christopher Hill, "Pre-Revolutionary England" (Readings #2); Margaret Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy Vikers, "Introduction" (Readings #3)

Focus Questions #2 Due: Caelica, poems number 1, 2, 38, 50, 56, 82, 84, 98, 99, 109 (Readings #4); Moira P. Baker "'The Uncanny Stranger on Display': The Female Body in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Love Poetry" [stop reading after the section on Greville] (Readings #5); Peter Stallybrass, "Patriarchal Territories: The Body Enclosed," 123-131 only [stop at the section on Spenser's Faerie Queene and Britomart] (Readings #6)

MLA Projects and Scholarly Essay Assignment: Using McConnell Master Menu, MLA Bibliography, RU Electronic Catalog, WorldCat, Interlibrary Loan

Focus Questions #3 Due (do only the first two questions): Jonson "Epigrams" from The Forest in The Works of Ben Jonson, 1616 (Longman Anthology, 1531-1533); Jonathan Goldberg, "Fatherly Authority: The Politics of Stuart Family Images" (Readings #7)

Focus Questions #4 Due: "The Argument of His Book," "Delight in Disorder," "Corinna's Going A-Maying," "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," "The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Time," "Upon Julia's Clothes" (all Longman's Anthology) and "Julia's Churching, or Purification," "The Vine," "Upon Scobble," "The Hourglass," "Julia's Petticoat," "Upon Some Women," "To Daffodils," "To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon," "The Night-Piece, To Julia," "The Maypole," "The Amber Bead" (all in Readings #9); Moira P. Baker "'The Uncanny Stranger on Display': The Female Body in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Love Poetry" [read only the section on Herrick] (Readings #5)

Focus Questions #5 Due: Shakespeare's Sonnets: #12, 15, 18, 20, 29, 33, 55, 60, 73, 80, 86, 87, 116, 121*,129*, 135*, 130, 135, 138, 144 (Longman's Anthology, 1169-1178; poems with * are in Readings #10); read the two supplementary handouts (Petrarchan poetry and Shakespeare's sonnets)

Focus Questions #6 Due: "Introduction to Wroth" and poems from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621): #1, 16, 26, 28, 39, 40, 48, 68, 74, 103 (Longman's Anthology, 1571-1577); Introduction to Katherine Phillips, and "Friendship in Emblem," "Upon the Double Murder of King Charles," "On the Third of September, 1651," "To the Truly Noble [...] Mrs. Anne Owen," "To Mrs. Mary Awbery," "To my excellent Lucasia" (Longman's Anthology, 1645-1653)

Focus Questions #7 Due (do only the first two questions): "The Good Morrow," "Song," "The Sun Rising," "The Indifferent," "The Canonization," "Break of Day," "A Valediction: of Weeping," "The Flea," "The Bait," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Relic," "Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed" (Longman's Anthology, 1550-1563) and "The Anniversary," "Love's Growth," "A Lecture upon a Shadow," "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day" (in Readings #11a)

Focus Questions #7 Due (do the third and fourth questions): Holy Sonnets #3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10 (Longman's Anthology 1564-1568) and "Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness," "A Hymn to God the Father" (Readings #11a)

Library Workshop: Using SilverPlatter, JSTOR, Historical Abstracts, and various indexes for collateral and contextual research

Focus Questions #8 Due (do only questions one and two): John Donne, Deaths Duell (Readings #11); and handouts on Deaths Duell

Focus Questions #8 Due (do questions three and four): "The Development of English Prose" and "Francis Bacon" (Longman's Anthology 1655-1656); "Of Truth," "Of Studies" (1597 version) "Of Studies" (1625 version) (Longman's Anthology 1656-1657; 1661-1662); The Great Instauration and The New Organon (Readings #12)

Focus Questions #9 Due: Vives, "Instruction of a Christian Woman," Knox, "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women," "Introduction: Conduct," Constancia Munda, "The Worming of A Madde Dog" (all in Readings #13); "Tracts on Women and Gender," (Longman's Anthology 1329-1330); Joseph Swetnam, "The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Inconstant Women" (Longman's 1335-1338); Rachel Speght, "A Muzzle for Melastomus" (Longman's 1338-1344); Esther Sowernam, "Ester Hath Hanged Haman" (Longman's 1344-1347)

Focus Questions #10 Due (do only questions one and two): "Introduction," xv-xli; "To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty," "To the Virtuous Reader," "The Description of Cooke-ham"; Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, 51-84 [stop reading at "Eve's Apologie" (all in Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum)

Focus Questions #10 Due (do questions three and four): Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, 84-129.

Focus Questions #11 Due (4 questions): Hic-Mulier and Haec Vir (Longman's 1347-1355); Underdown, "Taming of a Scold" and Amussen article (Readings #14); Dekker and Middleton, The Roaring Girl, Act One (Longman's 1355-1368) and "The Roaring Girl in Context" (Longman's 1425-1426)

Focus Questions #12 Due (do questions one and two): The Roaring Girl, Acts Two and Three (Longman's 1368-1396)

Focus Questions #12 Due (do questions three and four): The Roaring Girl, Acts Four and Five (Longman's 1396-1424)

Focus Questions #13 Due (do four questions): "Othello in Context"; "Peter Martyr"; Peter Martyr, Decades of the New World; Pliny the Elder, "The History of the World"; "Leo Africanus"; Leo Africanus, "The History and Description of Africa" (all in Longman's 1261-1271); Karen Newman, "'And Wash the Ethiope White'" (Readings #15); Shakespeare, Othello Act One (Longman's Anthology 1179-1197)

Focus Questions #14 Due (do questions one and two): Acts two and three of Othello (Longman's 1197-1232)

Focus Questions #14 Due (do questions three and four): Acts four and five of Othello (Longman's 1232-1260)

Focus Questions #15 Due (do questions one and two): "Elizabeth Cary," and The Tragedie of Miriam, Acts One - Three (Longman's 1275-1306)

Focus Questions #15 Due (do questions three and four): The Tragedie of Miriam, Acts Four and Five (Longman's 1306-1328)