Renaissance Non-Dramatic Literature

Schedule


Week I      
8/25 Introduction to course and subject
   
8/27     
8/29 Castiglione, The Courtier
Shakespeare's "Degree" speech in Troilus and Cressida 		 
Week II      
9/1 Labor Day: No Class
   
9/3 Thomas More, Utopia, Part I
  
9/5
 
Week III      
9/8 Thomas More, Utopia, Part II (49-88)
  
9/10 Utopia (88-123)   
9/12 Utopia (124-148)
Introduction to Renaissance poetics		   
Week IV      
9/15 Poetry of Thomas Wyatt (all)
   
9/17 Poetry by Henry Howard (all)
   
9/19 Library Orientation Session
   
Week V      
9/22 Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"
Walter Ralegh, "The Nymph's Reply"
Poetry and Prose by Elizabeth I (all)
 Essay on Elizabeth
9/24 Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, I.11
  
9/26  
  
Week VI      
9/29 Poetry by Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton (all)  
10/1 Introduction to Robert Greene: Jenn Ishler
Robert Greene, Pandosto 		Quiz
10/3 Introduction to Martin Luther: Heather
Introduction to Walter Ralegh: Brian		   
Week VII      
10/6 Introduction to Thomas Deloney: Brittney
Thomas Deloney, Jack of Newbury
 Quiz
10/8 Introduction to Pico della Mirandola: Brian
Background on the theme for your paper
 Background 
10/10 No Class
   
Week VIII       
10/13 No Class
   
 10/15 Philip Sidney, Defense of Poesy Summary
 10/17 Introduction to John Calvin: Alex
Your theme applied to first two writers		 Paper installment
Week IX       
10/20 Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnets 1-10
  
10/22 Astrophil and Stella, Sonnets 11-32  
10/24 Introduction to Miguel de Cervantes: Brittney
Astrophil and Stella Sonnets 33-55		   
Week X      
10/27 Astrophil and Stella, Sonnets 56-76  
10/29 Astrophil and Stella, Sonnets 77-91   
10/31 Astrophil and Stella, Sonnets 92-108   
Week XI      
11/3 Conclusion of A & S; Introduction to Arcadia
  
11/5 Philip Sidney, The "Old" Arcadia, First Eclogue, pp. 42-55   
11/7 The "Old" Arcadia, First Eclogue, pp. 55-70  
Week XII      
11/10 The New Arcadia, four selections, pp. 253-273.  
11/12 Translations of the Psalms  
11/14 The Letters  
Week XIII    
11/17 No class
  
11/19 Letters and Psalms of Philip Sidney
  
11/21 Guest: Dr. Alzada Tipton
Mary Wroth (all) 		 
Week XIV    
11/24 Review: Overview of Renaissance
  
11/26 Introduction to Mary Herbert: Ann
Mary Sidney Herbert (all)
"To the Angel Spirit of . . . Sir Philip Sidney" 		 
11/28 No Class
  
     
Week XV    
12/1 Presentations: Fricke, Savage, Duncan  
12/3 Presentations: Ishler  
12/5 Presentations: Altman, Crusoe, Wilson  
Finals
  
  
Friday, 12/12
1:00-3:00		 Final Papers due