ENG 549 Medieval and Renaissance ( Graduate Class)

This course invites students to explore the highly rich and exquisite periods in the history and development of English literature: the medieval and the Renaissance. It examines the impact of Medieval literature on the formation of Renaissance culture that produced prominent authors and thinkers. It does so through the study of major works of poetry, prose, and drama from both ages and by prominent authors and will pay special attention to their social, religious, and political contexts through the selected works.

Calendar—Fall—2021	Topic
Week 1	Yonge Folks' History Of England Chapters 1-18 –LMS (Pages 2-32) The Norton Anthology (TNA)10th Edition: Volume A   Intro pages (3-29)  Ibn Fadlan's Risalah رسالة ابن فضلان   PDF
Week 2	The Norton Anthology (TNA)10th Edition:: Volume A Beowulf ( 42-125) The 13th Warrior (1999)-Movie
Week 3	The Norton Anthology (TNA)10th Edition:: Volume A Marie De France “Milun,” Lanval,” & “ Chevrefoil.”  ( 159-187)  “Sir Gawain And The Green Knight” (201-256)
Week 4	National Day
Week 5	Chaucer: Selections from The Canterbury Tales (256-360)
Week 6	The Norton Anthology (TNA)10th Edition:: Volume A Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe (442-456) Sir Thomas Malory: Morte Darthur or Le Morte D’Arthur ( 534-554) Everyman (558-580)
Week 7	Yonge Folks' History Of England Chapters 18-37 –LMS (Pages 32-66) The Norton Anthology (TNA)10th Edition: Volume B Intro pages (3-35) Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery by Matar
Week 8	Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine the Great ((Part One & Part Two) Shakespeare: Othello & Shakespeare in Love (1998)-Movie
Week 9	Shakespeare: The Tempest Ben Jonson: Volpone, or The Fox (991-1089) Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl
Week 10	No Class
Week 11	Three Turk Plays: From Early Modern England Edited by Daniel J. Vitkus
Week 12	The Norton Anthology (TNA)10th Edition:: Volume B Sir Thomas More: Utopia (41-118) THE WIDER WORLD: excerpts from the following: (609-657) Hakluyt’s Dedicatory Epistle to The Principal Navigations, Leo Africanus on the North Africans, An English Traveler’s Guide to the North Africans A Voyage to Equatorial Africa, A Voyage to the Arctic with Reflections on Racial Difference Witherington and Lister’s Voyage to West Africa and South America, Amadas and Barlowe’s Voyage to Virginia, Hariot’s Report on Virginia, A Gift for the Sultan The General History of the Turks Sir Francis Bacon: The New Atlantis Thomas Hobbes: From Leviathan (1405-1417)
Week 13	Aemilia Lanyer: From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum& The Description of Cookham (980-990) Elizabeth Cary: The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry Mary Wroth: from The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania: The First Book (1112-1115)                        Song (“Love what art thou? A vain thought”) (1115-1116)                        From Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1116-1121) Margaret Cavendish: from Poems and Fancies (1434-1447)                         From A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life                        From The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World Katherine Philips: Selected poems (1333-1339)
Week 14	Fall Break
Week 15	Annotated Bibliography due on LMS on Wednesday 11:59 p.m. The Norton Anthology (TNA)10th Edition:: Volume B Sir Walter Ralegh: Selected poems (526-532) Edmund Spenser: about the author (238-24) & The Faerie Queene (249-456) Sir Philip Sidney: The Defense of Poesy (547-585) & Astrophil and Stella (586-603) John Donne: from Songs and Sonnets (920-249) & “Death be Not Proud.” George Herbert: from The Temple (1255-1276) Andrew Marvell: from Poems ( 1339-1383)
Week 16	The Norton Anthology (TNA)10th Edition: Volume B John Milton: about the author (1447-1451) & Paradise Lost (1495-1768)
Week 17	Final Paper due on LMS on Wednesday 11:59 p.m. Final paper presentations on Thursday
Week 18	Final Exam (See Edugate)