Elizabeth I and James I
Turn of the Century: What Led Up to
1600, and What Followed
Everything
changed during the years just before and after the turn of the 17th
century. England had a new religion, a
new monarch, and a new world-view, and poetry, prose and drama all changed
course to accommodate a world in the process of refashioning itself. The classically-focused Renaissance become, in
truth, the early modern period, the precursor of our own.
This
semester we will read widely in late-16th and early-17th
century literature. A reading list and
the approximate dates of the assignments are below. The required texts for the course, available
in the BC Bookstore, are
1) The Norton Anthology of English Literature: the Sixteenth Century / the
Earlier Seventeenth Century. Volume
B. 9th edition. Ed. Greenblatt et al.
2) John
Ford, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore. New Mermaids Series, Norton
In addition, there is a course website (you're reading it now) at english4102.blogspot.com. There will not be a Blackboard listing. The website will contain supplementary
information, assignments, alerts, etc., all of them relevant to what we will be
discussing at the time of the posting. What’s on it is required reading; you
should check it before every class.
You will write two essays (of about 500 and 1200 words), and
take a midterm exam and a final exam. There may also be unannounced quizzes.
Your final grade will be derived from these four submissions (Essay 1: 15%; Essay 2:
30%; midterm: 15%; final,
25%) plus participation in classroom discussion and performance on quizzes, 15%. Attendance will be taken at every class, and
credit will be deducted for more than
three unexcused absences. Six unexcused
absences will result in a grade of F. In
addition, credit will be deducted for essays that are submitted late unless you
have received an extension from me in advance.
My office hours are on Monday and Wednesday, from 2:30 to
3:30. My office is in 2312 Boylan.
The best way to get in touch with me outside of class is to
email me at richardhorwich1@gmail.com
READING ASSIGNMENTS
(The correspondence
between the assignments and the dates on which we will discuss them is very
unreliable; I really have no idea how long it will take us to discuss any or
all of these readings. That’s why I’ve
left it open-ended; if we have time, we’ll dip into Milton, and if not, not. It’s really up to you – how much you
contribute to class discussion. I hope
we’ll run out of time before we get to the end of the reading list.)
JANUARY
28
Introduction
FEBRUARY
2 MARLOWE
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (1126)
RALEGH
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (1024)
4
WYATT
Madam, withouten many words (653), They flee from me (653),
Whoso list to hunt (649)
9 CASTIGLIONE
excerpts from The Courtier (704-06)
11 SPENSER
From The Faerie Queeen, Book 2, Canto 12 (934)
18 The
Faerie Queene, cont.
23 SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet 116 (1182), Sonnet 73 (1187), Sonnet 129 (1183)
25 Sonnet 130 (1184),
Sonnet 138 (1184)
MARCH
2
Begin SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth
Night (1187)
4 12N, cont.
9
SUCKLING, Love is the Fart (on website)
DONNE
The Flea (1373), The
Indifferent (1377),
11 SWETNAM
The Arraignment. . . . (1650)
DONNE Go and Catch (1374),
The Sun Rising (1376),
16 DONNE A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (1385), Elegy 19 (1383),
Holy Sonnet 13
(1413), Holy Sonnet 14 (1413)
23 JONSON
On My First Son (1542), On My First Daughter (1541), Epitaph
for S.P. (1545),
Inviting A Friend for Supper (1544)
25 Begin Volpone (1445)
30 Volpone,
cont.
APRIL
1 BACON From The
Advancement of Learning (1675)
From Novum Organum (1677)
13 FORD
Begin ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore (New
Mermaids edition)
15 Tis Pity She’s A Whore , cont.
20 HOBBES
from Leviathan (1856)
22 MARVELL
To His Coy Mistress (1796), The Mower Against Gardens (1800)
27 The
Garden (1804), A Dialogue Between the
Body and the Soul (1792)
29 HERBERT,
The Collar (1720), Easter Wings (1709), The
Pulley (1721)
MAY
4 MILTON, tba
6
MILTON, tba
11 MILTON, tba
13 MILTON, tba
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