E211 British Literature to 1760 Schedule, Spring 2008

READING SCHEDULE FOR E211 BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1760
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2008

*2023 Note. Most links and procedural information have been removed from this archival copy, leaving mainly the required editions and the reading schedule.

COURSE INFORMATION. English 211, Course Code 13028, Section 2. Wed. 4:00 – 6:50 p.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 463. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Wed. 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in University Hall (UH) 329. Email: e211@ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Major periods and movements, major authors, and major forms through 1760. Units (3). Satisfies requirements for General Education (GE) Category III.B.2 with grade of C or better.”

REQUIRED TEXTS AT TITAN BOOKSTORE

Abrams, M. H. et al, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 8th ed. New York: Norton, 2006. Package 1 (Vols. ABC) ISBN 0-393-92833-0.

Mackenzie, Henry. The Man of Feeling. Oxford University Press, USA; 2nd ed. 2001. ISBN-10: 0192840320. ISBN-13: 978-0192840325.

Shakespeare, William. Much Ado about Nothing. Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington Square Press, 2004. ISBN-10: 0743482751. (ISBN-13: 978-0743482752).

QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS

*2023 Note. Visitors may download the following questions in PDF format: BRITISH LITERATURE TO C18 | SHAKESPEARE. Editions may differ from the ones used for this course.

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

01/23. Course Introduction.

WEEK 2

01/30. Bede, Anonymous, Beowulf. From Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (24-27). Anonymous author’s “The Dream of the Rood” (27-29). Beowulf (29-100).

WEEK 3

02/06. Geoffrey Chaucer. “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” from The Canterbury Tales (256-84).

WEEK 4

02/13. Thomas Malory and Anonymous. From Malory’s Morte Darthur (438-56). Anonymous. Everyman (463-84).

WEEK 5

02/20. Thomas Wyatt, Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Philip Sidney. Wyatt’s “The long love…” (594); “Whoso list to hunt” (595); “My galley” (597); “Divers doth use” (598); “Madam, withouten many words” (599); “They flee from me,” both versions (599-600); “My lute, awake!” (600-01); “Forget not yet” (601-02); “Blame not my lute” (602-03); “Who list his wealth and ease retain” (603-04); “Mine Own John Poins” (604-06). Queen Elizabeth I’s “A Speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, Nov. 5, 1566” (692-94); “A Letter to Sir Amyas Paulet, August 1586” (697); “A Letter to King James VI of Scotland, February 14, 1587” (697-98); “Verse Exchange between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh” (698-99); “Speech to the Troops at Tilbury” (699-700); “Golden Speech” (1700-03). Sidney’s “The Defense of Poesy” (953-68 only).

WEEK 6

02/27. Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Ralegh, Thomas Hariot. Spenser’s “Epithalamion” (907-16). Ralegh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” (917-18); “What is our life? (918); “…to His Son” (918-19); “The Lie” (919-21); “Farewell, False Love” (921); “Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay” (921-22); “Nature, that washed her hands in milk” (922-23); “The Author’s Epitaph…” (923); from The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana (923-26) and The History of the World (926). Hariot’s Report on Virginia (938-43).

WEEK 7

03/05. Christopher Marlowe. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1022-55).

WEEK 8

03/12. William Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing. (Folger paperback.)

WEEK 9

03/19. John Donne, Ben Jonson. Donne’s “The Flea” (1263); “The Good-Morrow” (1263-64); “The Sun Rising” (1266); “The Canonization” (1267-68); “A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day” (1272-73); “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (1275-76); “The Ecstasy” (1276-78); from “Holy Sonnets” (1295-99), “Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward” (1299-1300); from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and “Death’s Duel” (1303-08). Jonson’s The Masque of Blacknesse (1326-34); “On My First Son” (1430); “On Lucy, Countess of Bedford” (1430); “Inviting a Friend to Supper” (1431-32); “To Penshurst” (1434-36); “Song: To Celia” (1436); from “A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces” (1437-38); “To the Memory of my Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare…” (1444-46); from Timber, or Discoveries (1448-51).

WEEK 10

03/26. John Milton. “Sonnets” (1826-29); Paradise Lost, Books 1-4 (1831-1908).

WEEK 11

04/02. Spring Recess. No classes.

WEEK 12

04/09. Aphra Behn. Oroonoko (2178-2226).

WEEK 13

04/16. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock (2513-32); “Eloisa to Abelard” (2533-40); from “Essay on Criticism” (2496-2513).

WEEK 14

04/23. John Gay. The Beggar’s Opera (2611-56)

WEEK 15

04/30. Samuel Johnson. Johnson’s The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (2680-2743); Rambler #4 “On Fiction” (2743-46); “Preface” to Shakespeare (2755-66).

WEEK 16

05/07. Henry Mackenzie. The Man of Feeling (Oxford paperback).

FINAL EXAM

Final Exam Date: Wednesday, May 14, 5:00 – 6:50 p.m.

READING SCHEDULE FOR E211 BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1760CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2008