Tudor Renaissance (Fall 2000)

ENGL 4301-2408
ENGL 5301-2057

TTH 12:15 to 1:30
Irby 303

Dr. Frontain
Office: Irby 421
Office Hours: MWF 2-3, 4-5
                     TTH 1:30-3:30

TEXTS
Sir Thomas More, Utopia, 2nd ed. (Norton)
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 2nd ed. (Norton)
Petrarch, Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works (Oxford)
Emrys Jones, ed., The Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse (Oxford)
Hugh Maclean and Anne Lake Prescott, eds., Edmund Spenser's Poetry, 3rd ed. (Norton)
Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works (Penguin)

SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS

R 17 Aug.  Introduction to Course: Print, Culture, and Self-Fashioning

T 22 Aug.  More, Utopia, Book I
R 24 Aug.          "           , Book II

T 29 Aug.  Machiavelli, The Prince, pp. 1-42
R 31 Aug.           "                           pp. 42-72

T   5 Sept.  Petrarch, "Letter," "Ascent" and begin Canzoniere
R   7 Sept.           "     conclude Canzoniere

T 12 Sept. Spenser, Shepheardes Calender
R 14 Sept.           "

T 19 Sept.           "
R 21 Sept.  EXAMINATION

T 26 Sept.  Wyatt, selections in SCV
R 28 Sept.           "

T   3 Oct.  Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (SCV 154-84)
R   5 Oct.  LIBRARY RESEARCH DAY

T 10 Oct.  Conclude discussion of Sidney
R 12 Oct.  Shakespeare, Sonnets (SCV 372-413)

T 17 Oct.            "
R 19 Oct.            "                  PAPERS DUE IN CLASS

T 24 Oct.  Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 3, cantos 1-3
R 26 Oct.            "                                         cantos 4-6

T 31 Oct.            "                                         cantos 7-9
R   2 Nov.           "                                         cantos 10-12

T   7 Nov.  Conclude discussion of FQ; "Epithalomion"
R   9 Nov.  EXAMINATION

T 14 Nov.  Marlowe, Hero and Leander (SCV 313)
R 16 Nov.  Marlowe, All Ovids Elegies (SCV 306-9); Golding (SCV 98)

T 21 Nov.  Nashe, Choice of Valentines (Nashe 458); Barnfield, Affectionate Shepherd (SCV 489)
R 23 Nov.  THANKSGIVING RECESS

T 28 Nov.  Nashe, Pierce Penniless (49-100)
R 30 Nov.           "                           (101-45)

T   5 Dec.  Nashe, Unfortunate Traveller (251-310)
R   7 Dec.            "                                  (311-70)

R 14 Dec.  FINAL EXAMINATION (2-4 p.m.)

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PAPER AND FINAL EVALUATION

A 5-7 page (12-15 page for graduate students) typewritten paper, following MLA documentation format, analyzing any poem in SCV by Greville, Ralegh, Daniel, or Drayton within the context of any theme or operation discussed this semester, is due at the start of class on Oct. 19.  The final grade will be computed as follows: exam #1 (20%), exam #2 (25%), final comprehensive exam (30%), and paper (25%).