Schedule of Assignments
(subject to change)
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1. Introduction to the course

2. Introduction to the Old English period; Beowulf, part I (the fight with Grendel)

3. Beowulf (Part II: the fight with Grendel's mother)

4. Beowulf (Part III: the fight with the dragon)

5. Introduction to the Middle English Period; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 1 and 2

6. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 3 and 4

7. Introduction to Chaucer; "General Prologue" from The Canterbury Tales

8. "General Prologue," continued

9. "The Wife of Bath's Prologue"

10. "The Wife of Bath's Prologue," continued

11. "The Wife of Bath's Tale"

12. "The Nun's Priest's Tale"

13.  Malory, selections from Morte Darthur (to be announced)

14. Review

15. Test 1

16. Introduction to the Sixteenth Century; Sonnets (selections to be announced)

17. Sonnets (continued)

18. Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I

19. Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

20. Dr. Faustus, continued.

21. Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Acts I and II

22. Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Acts III and IV

23. Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act V; review for test

24. Test 2

25. Cultural History Test

26. Hamlet, Act I

27. Hamlet, Act II

28. Hamlet, Act III

29. Hamlet, Act IV

30. Hamlet, Act V

31. Hamlet, continued.

32. Donne, "The Flea," "The Ecstasy," "The Canonization," "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

33. Donne, Holy Sonnets 5, 7, 10, 14; "A Hymn to God the Father"; "Good Friday 1613--Riding Westward"; Meditation 17

34. 17th Century Poetry (selections to be announced)

35. 17th Century Poetry, continued

36. Milton, Paradise Lost, book I

37. Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, continued

38. Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II

39. Milton, Paradise Lost, selections from Books III and IV

40. Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IX

41.  Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IX

Test 3 and the comprehensive final exam will be given together during the final exam period.

 

 

Study Pages:

Section 1: 
Beowulf
Sir Gawain
Canterbury Tales
Morte Darthur
The Humors

Essay Questions

Section 2
Sonnets
Faerie Queene
Dr. Faustus
I Henry IV
Idea of Order
Anatomy of the Soul

Section 3
Hamlet
Donne
17th Century Poetry
Paradise Lost

Paper Topic