Look over the topics below and the calendar, considering what
topics and dates (multiple ones) you would like to work on for
the group paper and presentation. The assignment will be given
in detail once groups and topics have been established here.
Note: lines below dates/topics indicate sign up slots for group members. You and your group members will sign up in
class for your topic. “Open dates” may be used for proposed topics which have to be presented to me in office hours by
your group; these must have to do with central works, authors, contexts of the period into which they fall.
September
8 M Beowulf.
10 W The Historical Arthur.
15 M Open Topic (must be approved in office hours by group)
17 W Gawain.
22 M Chaucer
24 W Gower
31 M Mystery Plays/Pageants/Morality Plays
October
6 M The Tudors
8 W Religious division in 16th-century England
13 M Women in 16th-century England
15 W Christopher Marlowe (Shakespeare’s contemporary)
20 M Ben Jonson (Shakespeare’s contemporary)
22 W 16th-century theatres
November
3 M Women’s roles in or a woman writer of the 17th C.
5 W Ranters, Levellers, Quakers, Shakers, etc. in 17th C.
10 M Cromwell as “Lord Protector” and Charles II/Restoration
12 W Samuel Pepys
17 M Samuel Richardson
19 W Jane Austen
Nov. 25-29, Mon.-Fri.- Thanksgiving break, classes recessed
December
1 M Beginnings of Romanticism (with a look towards Germany...)
3 W English Romanticism