William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Spring 2000
MWF 1:00-1:50
247 Millett
Henry Limouze
email: henry.limouze@wright.edu
newsgroup: wright.eng.english351-01
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Recommended Text: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: MLA, 1999. (This is the English department's official manual of style. You should follow it in all formal academic writing in English.)
Date -- Reading Assignments
I. History of Early English Drama
3/29 -- "Mystery Plays" (379-380); "Noah's Flood" (381-391)
3/31 -- "Second Shepherd's Play" (391-419)
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4/3 -- "Second Shepherd's Play" (continued); read "Everyman" (445-467)
4/5 -- "Everyman (continued); read Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (990-1025)
The Globe Theater
4/7 -- Dr. Faustus (continued)
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4/10 -- Dr. Faustus (continued)
4/12 -- Dr. Faustus (continued);read Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1043-1105)
4/14 -- Twelfth Night (continued)
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4/19 -- Twelfth Night (continued)
4/21 -- BBC Video of Twelfth Night (excerpt) (optional class)
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II. Medieval Nondramatic Literature
4/26 -- Introduction, "The Middle Ages" (1-22); "Anglo-Saxon England," (23-26); "Wanderer" "Wife's Lament" and "Battle of Maldon"(99-109)4/28 -- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, General Prologue (210-235)
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5/1 -- General Prologue (concluded)
5/3 -- Miller's Prologue and Tale (235-252)
5/5 -- Wife of Bath's Prologue & Tale (252-281); Margery Kempe (366-379)
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Page from a 14th century Psalter, showing "drolleries."
At the bottom is a plowman5/8 -- Pardoner's Prologue and Tale (281-296)
5/10 -- Nun's Priest's Tale (296-310); close of the Tales (310-313)
5/12 -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (156-210)
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5/15 -- Sir Gawain (concluded)
5/17 -- Midterm Exam 2
Final Examination: Wednesday, June 7, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in 247 Millett5/19 -- Early Tudor Poets: Wyatt (525-537); Surrey (569-577); Gascoigne (601-5)------
5/22 -- Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book I selections: Introduction to Spenser (614-616); introduction to FQ (622-624); Spenser's Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh (624-627); Canto 1 (628-641); Canto 2 (642-652); Canto 4 (662-674); Canto 6 (687-698); Canto 7 (698-710)
5/24 -- FQ, Book I selections: Canto 8, stanzas 37-50 &718-721); "Despair"--Canto 9, stanzas 21-54 (726-734); Canto 10 (734-750); Canto 11 (skim this--750-762); Canto 12 (763-772)
5/26 -- FQ, II, The Bower of Blisse (772-783); III, The Garden of Adonis (826-839)
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5/29 -- Memorial Day--University Closed
5/31 -- Elizabethan Sonneteers: Sidney (916-933); Spenser (863-878)
6/2 -- Shakespeare, Sonnets (1026-1043)
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
Requirements for the Course:
Midterm Examination 1 (April 24) 25% of grade
Midterm Examination 2 (November 5) 25% of grade
Final Examination (December 1) 30% of grade
Class participation and newsgroup (4th
hour project) 20% of grade
Newsgroup Requirement [newsgroup: "wright.eng.english351-01"]
I have created an online newsgroup for this class. You will be able to access it with your student computing account. You should know how to access your student computing account. If you do not, or if you need instructions on how to access the university newsgroups, please see the CATS help desk in the library basement (775-4827).
This newsgroup accounts for nearly all your writing
in this class. It is also serves as the equivalent for the fourth, unmet
hour for this class. Use the newsgroup to converse with your classmates
about the reading and discussion, to note relationships among readings,
to raise questions, confusions or concerns, to argue points we can't always
get to in class, or to alert the rest of us to an interesting find in your
outside reading. One useful approach might be to quote a passage from one
of the week's readings and
frame a discussion around it. Sometimes I will suggest
a discussion topic. Mostly, though, the newsgroup is your forum.
In order to receive a grade of C for newsgroup participation you will need to make FOUR substantive postings, either raising and following up on an issue for discussion or responding in depth to an ongoing discussion. A grade of B requires SIX substantive postings, while a grade of A requires EIGHT substantive postings. Do not put your newsgroup participation off until the end of the quarter. I will count no more than two entries in each of the final three weeks of the course, so if you want an A for the newsgroup discussion section of the course, you will need to post at least two substantive messages during weeks one through seven. Start early and post often!
Other factors affecting grade
Although I have not specifically listed "Attendance" among the requirements for this course, it can count in a negative way. This MWF class meets only 29 times during this quarter. Thus, if you miss only three classes, you miss more than 10% of the course. Therefore, I will enforce the following policy on attendance:
One to four absences -- No penalty
Five to seven absences -- Final grade drops one letter grade
Eight or more absences -- F for course
Other policies
Academic honesty is likewise essential to the fair and successful conduct of class, and dishonesty will be punished. Dishonesty includes various kinds of cheating, "plagiarism" (defined as the use of the words or ideas of another as if they were your own), and copying the work of another student in a test. Penalties for academic dishonesty can be severe; in most cases the work will receive a grade of zero.
INSTRUCTOR Henry Limouze
Email henry.limouze@wright.edu
Office 438 Millett
Hours Mondays and Fridays 12-1
Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-4 and by appointment
Phone 775-2093 (my desk); 775-3136 (office)
URL for this syllabus: Dept/ENG/limouze/351s00.htm