| Week One (Sept 4 -
6)
For Friday: "The Middle Ages to ca. 1485": NA, 1 - 9. Also read: From Bede, An Ecclesiastical History . . .: The Story of Caedmon, 23 - 26. |
Week Nine (Oct. 28
- Nov 1)
Introduction to Shakespeare; Shakespeare's sonnets numbers 3, 18, 29, 30, 73, 106, 116, 129, 130, 146, 147. |
| Week Two (Sept. 9
- 13)
Beowulf, lines 1-1061; 1167-1798; 1963-end. |
Week Ten (Nov 4 -
8)
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, NA, 1043-1105. |
| Week Three (Sept.
16 - 20)
"Medieval English," NA, 14 - 18, Chaucer's short lyric Truth (NA, 315), and the Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer and The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. |
Week Eleven (Nov.
11 - 15)
Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, NA, 990-1025. Creative project due Friday, Nov. 15 |
| Week Four (Sept. 23
- 27)
The Miller's Introduction and Tale. |
Week Twelve (Nov.
18 - 22)
Hamlet |
| Week Five (Sept. 30
- Oct 4)
The Wife of Bath's Introduction. Also read: From The Book of Margery Kempe. |
Week Thirteen (Nov.
25 - 27 [short week])
"The Seventeenth Century"; John Donne's Holy Sonnets 1, 5, 10, 14. Milton's "How Soon Hath Time," "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont," "When I Consider How My Light is Spent," NA, 1812-15; From Areopagitica, NA, 1801-03; 1809-11. |
| Week Six (Oct. 7 -
11)
The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue. |
Week Fourteen (Dec
2 - 6)
Paradise Lost, Book 1; from Book 2, lines 1-416; from Book 4, lines 1-357; Book 9, lines 1-493. Outside essays due Friday, Dec. 6 |
| Week Seven (Oct. 14
- 18)
"The Sixteenth Century 1485-1603," NA, 469- 96, and Chaucer, "Troilus's Song" (NA, 314); Sir Thomas Wyatt, "The Long Love" (NA, 527); Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, "Love, That Doth Reign" (NA, 571; cf. with Wyatt); Wyatt, "They Flee from Me" (NA, 529-30); Mary Wroth, 2 sonnets from her cycle (NA, 1428); Sir Philip Sidney, from Astrophel and Stella, sonnets number 1, 5, 18, 31, 71 (NA, 460-61, 463, 468-69). Hourly exam on Wed. |
Week Fifteen (Dec.
9 - 11 [short week])
Paradise Lost, Book 9, Lines 494-885; lines 886-end; King James Bible Genesis 2-3; Aemilia Lanyer, "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women," NA, 1285-87. |
| Week Eight (Oct. 21
- 25)
Everyman, NA 445-67; Spenser's The Faerie Queene Canto I, stanza 1, NA, 629. |
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