Wk 1 SNOW DAY! 27 Jan Course Intro “The Battle of Maldon” (in class) 29 Jan Intro to Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, lines 1-27 “The Seafarer” (ELMS) “The Dream of the Rood” (on ELMS) Wk 2 1 Feb Beowulf Intro (pp 1-28) & Guide to Reading Aloud (29-37) Beowulf, lines 1-1250 3 Feb Reading aloud from Beowulf (25 lnes in OE) due—Sign up for time slot Beowulf, lines 5 Feb – No regular mtg Online discussion (at 9:00) & disc. post (by midnight) Beowulf, lines (end) Wk 3 8 Feb J.R.R. Tolkien, “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics,” pp.1-15 (ELMS) 10 Feb C.S. Lewis, “Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages” (ELMS) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Introduction + Part I 12 Feb Recitation of memorized #1 DUE: Chaucer’s General Prologue, lines Sign up/Make appt to recite to me before or after class Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part II Wk 4 15 Feb Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part (end) 17 Feb Pearl 19 Feb Sir Orfeo Wk 5 22 Feb Genesis 1-4 In Mystery Plays: Cawley’s Introduction “The Creation and Fall of Lucifer,” “The Creation of Adam and Eve” 24 Feb In Mystery Plays “The Fall of Man” “Cain and Abel” 26 Feb Genesis 6-8, 22 In Mystery Plays “Noah’s Flood” “Abraham and Isaac” Wk 6 29 Feb – LEAP DAY! Luke 1-2 In Mystery “The Annunciation” “The Second Shepherd’s Pageant” 2 Mar Luke 23; John 19 In Mystery Plays “The Crucifixion “The Harrowing of Hell” 4 Mar Matthew 25 In Mystery Plays “The Last Judgment” Everyman
Wk 7 7 Mar Chaucer, The General Prologue (selections tba) The Knight’s Tale (this is really long) Kittredge, “The Dramatic Principle of the Canterbury Tales” 9 Mar Chaucer, The Miller’s Prologue and Tale Donaldson, “Chaucer the Pilgrim” 11 Mar Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale SPRING BREAK! Wk 8 21 Mar Chaucer, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale 23 Mar Chaucer, The Friar’s and Summoner’s Prologues and Tales THURS 24 1 DUE 25 Mar Chaucer, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale Wk 9 28 Mar More, Utopia, Book One pp 52-60 (top paragraph only); Book Two, pp 90-97 English Bible translation (handout on ELMS) 30 Mar More, Utopia, Book Two, pp 97-160 1 Apr Spenser, Amoretti selected sonnets (ELMS) Wk 10 4 Apr Spenser, Epithalamion (link & handout on ELMS) Spenser, The Faerie Queene Book 1, Introduction & Canto 1 6 Apr Spenser, The Faerie Queene Book 1, Cantos 2-3 8 Apr Spenser, The Faerie Queene Book 1, Canto 4 Sixteenth-century poetry: Petrarch, Wyatt, and Surrey (handout on ELMS) Wk 11 11 Apr Spenser, The Faerie Queene Book 1, Cantos 5-7 13 Apr Spenser, The Faerie Queene Book 1, Cantos 8-9 15 Apr Spenser, The Faerie Queene Book 1, Cantos 10 Sixteenth-century lyric poetry: Sir Phillip Sidney (handout on ELMS)
Wk 12 18 Apr Spenser, The Faerie Queene Book 1, Cantos 11-12 20 Apr Isabella Whitney (in Whitney, Sydney and Lanyer) pp 1-43; Intro pp x-xvi Notes start on p. 283 22 Apr Online discussion post (no regular class) Sixteenth-century lyric poetry: Queen Elizabeth & (handout on ELMS) Wk 13 25 Apr Mary Sidney (in Whitney, Sydney and Lanyer), pp ; Intro 27 Apr Aemelia Lanyer (in Whitney, Sydney and Lanyer), Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, pp. 205-213 & 228-274; Intro pp xxx-xxv 29 Apr Whitney, Sidney, and Lanyer wrap up Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (sc. I-IV, pp 1-17) Wk 14 2 May Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus, IV-end Shakespearean sonnets (handout on ELMS) 4 May Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing Act I-III **Attend Maryland Shakespeare Players performance of Much Ado About Nothing May 5 – 8 starring Genna Godley 6 May Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing Act IV-V Last day to recite memorized piece #2 Paper 2 Due Wk 15 9 May – Last Day of Class! Course Wrap Up and Final Exam review