ENG/HUM 2543 Course Schedule
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The Middle Ages
1-21
Beowulf Intro material
 Beowulf
 Beowulf
 Beowulf
 Beowulf
 Beowulf & Film
26-30
 31-44
 44-52
 56-69
 69-83
 83-97
l. 1-661
l. 662-1069
l. 1158-1798
l. 1799-2509
L 2510-3182
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK) Intro
 SGGK
 SGGK
 SGGK
112-14
 114-35
 135-54
 154-65
l. 1-994
l. 995-1997
l. 1998-2531
Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales (CT) – Intro
o CT: “General Prologue”
o CT: “The Miller’s Tale”
o CT: “Wife of Bath’s Tale”
o CT: “The Pardoner’s Tale”
Thomas Malory
 Morte d’Arthur
The Sixteenth Century
165-68
 168-70
 170-90
 191-207
 226-34
 239-48
299-301
 301-18
319-345
Middle English Literature of the 14th & 15th C.
The Sonnet
 Sir Thomas Wyatt: “The Long Love…”& “Whoso List to Hunt”
 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: “Love That Doth Reign”
 Edmund Spenser: Amoretti # 1, 64, 67, and 75
 Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophil and Stella #1, 31, 108
 William Shakespeare: Sonnets #18, 29, 55, 60, 73, 116, 130,
138
Elizabeth I,
 Speech at Tilbury
Sir Walter Raleigh
 “Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
Christopher Marlow
 “Passionate Shepherd to his Love”
William Shakespeare: Elizabethan Theater/Tragedy; Macbeth
 Acts I & 2
 Acts 3 & 4
 Act 5
 Film
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 348-49
 353-54
 435-37
 449-51, +
 493-97, +
357-58
 362
447-48,
448-49
458-59,
459-60
Handout
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Early 17th Century
575-97
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John Donne and Metaphysical Poets
 “The Sun Rising”
 “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
 Holy Sonnet # 10
 Meditation #17
Robert Herrick
 “Corinna’s Gone A-Maying
 Upon Julia’s Clothes
Andrew Marvell
 To His Coy Mistress
John Milton
 Poems
 “Areopagitica”
 Paradise Lost
o Book 1
o Book 2
The Restoration and Early 18th C.
600-02
 606
 611-12
 623-24
 628-298
665-66
 667-69
 669-70
675-77
 677-78
693-96
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John Dryden
 “On Satire”
Aphra Been
 Oroonoko
Jonathan Swift
 “A Modest Proposal”
Samuel Johndon
 From The Dictionary
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