English 20

WEEK 1
Jan	7	Introduction to the Course and to the Medieval Period
FROM EPIC TO ROMANCE: THE EARLY ENGLISH HERO
WEEK 2
	12	Introduction to Old English (1-5, 14-15) Beowulf (21-55)
	14	* Beowulf (55-68)
WEEK 3
	19	The Battle of Maldon (70-75) The Dream of the Rood (19-21)
	21	Introduction to Middle English (5-10) * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (200-225)
WEEK 4
	26	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (225-254)
	28	Introduction to Chaucer and Chaucer’s English (10-15, 76-81) The Wife of Bath’s Tale (135-144)
WEEK 5
Feb	2	The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale (164-179) translation quiz
	4	The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale (164-179) translation quiz
WEEK 6
	9	Midterm
DEVILS, VILLAINS, AND DRAMA
	11	Introduction to the Sixteenth Century (395-413, esp. 409-412) The Merchant of Venice, Acts I and II
	13	8 P.M. ACTOR Performance of The Merchant of Venice
	14	2 P.M. ACTOR Performance of The Merchant of Venice
	*finish reading The Merchant of Venice before attending the performance*
WEEK 7
	16	ACTORs in class
	18	*The Merchant of Venice*
WEEK 8
	23	Everyman (363-384) Marlowe, Dr. Faustus*
	25	Marlowe, Dr. Faustus PAPER DUE
WEEK 9
Mar	2	*** Webster, The Duchess of Malfi**
	4	Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
March 8-12 SPRING BREAK
LOVERS AND WORSHIPPERS, SONNETS AND LYRICS
WEEK 10
	16	Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Verse (Review 395-413, esp. 406-409) Introduction to Reading Poetry * Petrarch, "Rhyme 140" (handout) Surrey, Intro (438-40), "Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought" (451) Wyatt (438-449), esp. Intro (438-39), "The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor," "My Galley," "Farewell, Love," "My Lute, Awake!" "They Fell From Me"
	18	* Shakespeare, Sonnets (808-822)
WEEK 11
	23	Introduction to the Sonnet Sequence (Read intro to Astrophel and Stella 459) * Spenser, The Amoretti (734-738)
	25	Introduction to the Early Seventeenth Century (1069-1079) * Donne, Intro (1080-1082), "The Undertaking," "The Sun Rising," "The Canonization," "The Flea," "The Ecstasy," "The Relique," "A Valediction: Forbidding Morning," "To His Mistress Going to Bed"
WEEK 12
	30	Donne, Holy Sonnets (1114-1118), esp. #5, 10, 17; "A Hymn to God the Father" (1121)
Apr	1	* Jonson, "To Penshurst" Lanyer, "The Description of Cooke-ham" Herrick, "The Hock Cart"
WEEK 13
	6	Herrick, Intro. (1354-55), "Delight in Disorder" (1357), "Corinna’s Going A-Maying" (1358), "The Lily in a Crystal" (1360), "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (1361), "Upon Julia’s Clothes" (1367)
	8	Herbert, Intro. (1369-1370), "The Altar," "The Redemption," "Easter, "The Windows," "The Pulley," "The Forerunners"
ELEGIES
WEEK 14
	13	The Wanderer (68-70) Milton, "Lycidas" (1433-35, 1451-56) Gray, "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" (2454-55, 2458-61) PAPER DUE
	15	Introduction to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century Gray, "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat" (2457-58) Smart, "My Cat Jeoffrey" (2467-69) Swift, "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" (2012-23)
SATIRE
WEEK 15
	20	* Swift, Intro. (2007-2009), "City Shower" (2009-2011), A Modest Proposal (2181-2186)
	22	*Pope, Rape of the Lock* (2212-2216, 2233-2251)**
WEEK 16
	27	*Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes* (2295-2306)**
	29	Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (2386-92) Class Evaluations and Final Review RE-WRITES DUE
May 6 12 NOON: Final Exam