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Week 1 |
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06.03 Monday: |
Basic Introduction: Syllabus
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• demo-Our English Heritage |
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• demo-Expectations- part 1 |
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• demo-Expectations- part 2 |
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06.04 to 06.06 cancelled due to unexpected instructor's illness. |
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Week 2 |
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06.10 Monday: |
Beowulf, (ll 1-1066) p 36-60 |
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(ll 1159-1249) p 62-65 |
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The Middle Ages: Pagan and Christian, p. 11-13; 34-35 |
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• demo-Anglo-Saxon Literature |
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• Beowulf Part 1: Grendel |
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06.11 Tuesday: |
Beowulf, (ll 1250-1707) p 65-75
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• Beowulf Part 2: Grendel's Mother |
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Beowulf, (ll 2199- 2352) p 85-89 |
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(ll 2394-2413) p 90 |
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(ll 2507-2609) p 92-94 |
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(ll 2623-2907) p 95-101 |
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(ll 3027-3179) p 104-107 |
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• Beowulf Part 3: The Dragon |
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• Swords within the Beowulf Text |
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06.12 Wednesday: |
Anglo-Saxon Period “Oral Poetry, Written Manuscript” p 13-15 |
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• demo-Old English Alphabet |
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Bede, “Cædmon’s Hymn” p 154, 158-160 |
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Various Versions of Cædmon's Hymn |
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• demo-Cultural Transitions |
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Anonymous |
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“The Wanderer” p 172-175 |
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• demo-“The Wanderer” |
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06.13 Thursday: |
Test 1: Anglo-Saxon Period |
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Week 3 |
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06.17 Monday: |
Hagiography versus Arthurian Romance |
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• demo |
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• Example of Hagiography: Bede's "Gregory the Great" |
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Arthurian Legends overview |
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• Geoffrey of Monmouth, p 183 |
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"Merlin and the First Conquest of Ireland" p. 187-190 |
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"Utherpendragon Sires Arthur" p. 190- 192 |
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"Arthur of Britain" p. 193-194 |
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• demo |
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• Marie de France, p 200 |
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from Lais 201-217 |
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On-line version of the full Lais. |
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• demo |
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06.18 Tuesday: |
Arthurian Legends continued |
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• Sir Thomas Malory, p 277 |
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"The Miracle of Galahad" p 281-288 |
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• demo |
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06.19 Wednesday: |
Middle English Lyrics
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• demo |
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• demo-Counting Meter |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, p 319-321 / 339-341 / 350-357 |
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ll. 1-43 /447-478 / 717-860 |
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• demo |
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06.20 Thursday: |
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath's Prologue
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• demo |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath's Tale |
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• Expectations of Academic Research Paper |
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Week 4 |
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06.24 Monday: |
Beginnings of English Renaissance |
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Sir Thomas More, Utopia |
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bio p 714-716 |
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"Letter: Thomas More to Peter Giles" p 716-718 |
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"Book 1" p 719-721 |
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• demo-Book 1 |
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"Book 2" (opening passages) p 741-743 |
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"Book 2: The Cities, Especially Amaurotum" P 743-745 |
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"Book 2: Social Relations" p 749-752 |
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• demo-Book 2 |
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06.25 Tuesday: |
English Renaissance Sonnets
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• demo |
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Sir Thomas Wyatt |
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"My Galley" p 669 |
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"Whoso List to Hunt" p 668 |
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
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"Love, That Doth Reign" p 670 |
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"The Soote Season" p 671 |
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06.26 Wednesday: |
Edmund Spenser |
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• demo |
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"#1. Happy Ye Leaves" p 676 |
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"#9. Long While I Sought" —supplemental |
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"#75. One Day I Wrote Her Name" p 679 |
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Sir Philip Sidney |
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• demo |
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"#1. Loving in Truth" p 680 |
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"#7. When Nature Made Her Chief Work" p 681 |
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"#31. With How Sad Steps, O Moon" p 684 |
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06.27 Thursday: |
William Shakespeare Sonnets |
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• demo |
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"# 1 From Fairest Creatures" p 1203 |
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"# 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day?" p 1204 |
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Last day to drop and receive a “W” |
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Week 5 |
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07.01 Monday: |
Sonnets Test 2
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William Shakespeare |
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"# 20 A Woman's Face with Nature's Own Hand Painted" p 1204 |
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"# 29 When in Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes" p 1205 |
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"# 126 O Thou, My Lovely Boy" p 1212 |
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"# 130 My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun" p 1213 |
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"# 138 When My Love Swears" p 1214 |
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"# 152 In Loving Thee" p 1214 |
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07.02 Tuesday: |
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1359 |
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• detailed synopsis of play • Video of Play, Lear perfromed by Ian McKellen |
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• demo |
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• major influence 1 |
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• major influence 2 |
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07.03 Wednesday: |
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1359 |
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• King Lear as a Tragic Hero |
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• Shakespeare's Tragedies |
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• demo |
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07.04 Thursday: |
school holiday/no classes
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Week 6 |
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07.08 Monday: |
William Shakespeare, King Lear, closing Acts |
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• demo |
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John Donne, Holy Sonnets, p 1603 |
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07.09 Tuesday: |
Class will meet at scheduled time for Final Exam. |
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