ENGLISH
2310: ENGLISH LITERATURE BEFORE 1790 |
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Our version |
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Alternate One |
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Alternate Two |
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Alternate Three—the archive |
Week 1 |
Old English
poetry/Wanderer/Maldon |
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Old English
poetry |
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Chaucer, General Prologue |
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
2 |
Beowulf/Dream of the Rood |
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Chaucer,
General Prologue to the Canterbury
Tales |
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Chaucer, Wife of Bath’s Tale |
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Chaucer, Merchant’s Tale |
3 |
OE/Lanval |
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Chaucer, Miller’s Tale |
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Chaucer, Pardoner’s Tale |
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Chaucer, Franklin’s Tale |
4 |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Julian of
Norwich/ Margery Kempe |
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Chaucer, Nun’s Priest’s Tale |
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Middle
English & 16th-c lyrics |
5 |
Abraham and Isaac/Doctor Faustus |
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Spenser, The Faerie Queene |
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Wakefield
Second Shepherd’s Play |
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Mankind |
6 |
Shakepeare, King Lear |
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The Faerie Queene |
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Malory, Morte Darthur |
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Shakespeare,
Henry IV Part 1 |
7 |
King Lear |
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Shakespeare,
Othello |
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Sonnets and
16th-c poetry |
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Shakespeare,
Henry IV Part 1 |
8 |
Sidney, Defence |
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Othello |
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Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night |
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Cary, Tragedy of Miriam |
9 |
Sonnets/John
Donne |
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16th-17th
c. poetry |
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Twelfth Night |
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16th-17th
c. prose: Burton, Sidney, Hoby, Ralegh, Hooker |
10 |
Milton, Paradise Lost |
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Milton, Paradise Lost |
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Ben
Jonson-poetry |
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Milton, Comus |
11 |
Paradise Lost |
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Milton, Paradise Lost |
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John
Donne-poetry |
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Congreve, Love for Love |
12 |
Paradise Lost |
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Aphra Behn, Oroonoko |
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17th-century
poetry: Marvell, Herbert, Herrick, etc. |
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Congreve/Sheridan,
The School for Scandal |
13 |
Paradise Lost |
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Dryden’s
poetry |
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Milton, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Lycidas |
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School for Scandal |
14 |
Thanksgiving
break—no class |
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15 |
Pope, Rape of the Lock |
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Swift, Gulliver’s Travels |
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Samuel
Johnson, poetry and prose |
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17th
& 18th c. prose: Addison, Steele, Defoe, Bunyan |
16 |
Pope |
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Gulliver’s Travels |
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Boswell,
Burney, Gray |
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Samuel
Johnson, Rasselas |