January 25: Introductions
| Readings: | No Readings this week. We will have a general introduction to the seminar. |
February 1: What was the Sixteenth Century?
| Readings: | Everyone should read “The Sixteenth Century,” by Colin Burrow, start to finish. The other two assigned readings (selections from The Later Tudors and The English and their History) should be read selectively according to the topic you were assigned in seminar last week. Please come to class with a brief summary of the readings on your topic, along with 3-4 quotations (also from the readings) that you think are especially important or illustrative. |
| Seminar Starter(s) | None this week |
February 8: King Arthur and Legends of England
| Readings: | Selections from Le Morte Darthur
“How Uther Pendragon begot the Noble Conqueror King Arthur” (3-32); “Of Nenive and Morgan le Fay” (58-81); “The Tale of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guenivere” (403-467); “The Death of Arthur” (468-527) Background materials on Malory and the publication history of Le Morte Darthur; William Caxton, the printer who brought these stories to the public; and Caxton’s 1485 Preface to Le Morte Darthur (original) and (modernized) |
| Seminar Starter(s) (2): | Kristina and Meghan |
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February 15: Richard III and Ruptures with the Past
| Readings: | Shakespeare, Richard III and Schwyzer, “Trophies, Traces, Relics, and Props: The Untimely Objects of Richard III“ |
| Seminar Starter: | Brendan Tanner |
| Assignment: | First Short Assignment Due Friday, 2/17 |
February 22: The Faerie Queene I: Reformation
| Readings: | Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Cantos 1-6 and selections from Foxe’s Acts and Monuments |
| Seminar Starter(s) (2): | Mike Marks
Christina Carmosino |
March 1: The Faerie Queene II: Spenser and the Bible
| Readings: | Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Cantos 7-12 and Jamie Ferguson, “The Bible and Biblical Hermeneutics” |
| Seminar Starter(s) (2): | Bethany Mahoney
Jonas Black |
March 8: Montaigne and The Essays
| Readings: | Seminar visit this week from Dr. Dustin Peone, Emory University
Selections from Montaigne’s Essays |
March 15: CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW
SECOND SHORT ASSIGNMENT DUE (by Friday, 3/17)
March 22: NO CLASS, SPRING BREAK
March 29: More’s Utopia
| Readings: | Utopia and Instead of the secondary reading, please prepare for seminar by looking at assigned dimension of Utopian culture (see email to the seminar) |
| Seminar Starter:
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Ashley Frazier
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April 5: The Tudors Today
| Readings: | Hillary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies |
| Seminar Starter(s) (2): | Michael Drago
Sarah Pepe |
April 12: Shakespeare’s Tudors
| Readings: | Shakespeare, All Is True (Henry VIII) |
| Seminar Starter(s): | Christine Urio |
April 19: Comedy of Errors
| Readings: | The Menaechmi (selections)
Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors |
| Seminar Starter(s) (2): | Kelsey Logan
Chris Page |
| Assignment: | THIRD SHORT ASSIGNMENT DUE BY 4/21 (FRIDAY) |
April 26: Titus (class meets from 6:00-10:15 in JFT 1010)
| Readings: | None: We will watch and discuss Julie Taymor’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus in class. |
| Seminar Starter: | Vince Fino |
| Assignment: | Abstract for Final Presentation Due |
May 3: The Sixteenth Century in the Twenty-first
Wed., May 17 (7:15): Seminar mini-conference