English 204--Core II

Renaissance and Reformation

[a.k.a. the Early Modern Period]

Section 01: MWF 9:30-10:40 in 22-314

Section 02: MWF 12:10-1:20 in 22-315

Instructor: Steven Marx

phone: 756-2411

smarx@calpoly.edu

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx

Office: 47-25E (Faculty Office Building)

Office hours: MWF 8:30-9:30 AM and by appointment after class or at other times

Winter 2004 Schedule

Week	Date	Topic/Activity	Text	Themes	Work due	Links
I	1/5	Introduction to class Creative Project Assignment	Gerrit Dou: Prince Rupert as the Prophet Samuel taught by Eli George Wither: Emblem		[numbers refer to pages in Longman Anthology unless noted otherwise]	Google Luminarium OED [On-campus or modem connection] OED [Off-campus connection] Bible Concordance Search Shakespeare Latin-English Dictionary Emblem Collections
	1/7	More and his circle lecture notes	Utopia Book I		641-661 686-713 warmup assignment	Thomas More Luminarium
	1/9	The Utopian quest discussion groups lecture notes	Utopia Book 2		713-755	Utopia Commercial [student creative project]
II	1/12	Exploration, Exploitation and Conquest	Barlow Harriot and Laudonniere, Sir Walter Ralegh Reading Notes Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine I		1212-1217 1217-1222 1201-1211 1. Prologue and Act I 2 .summary of Acts 2-5 and Thirst of Reign speech from Act II 3. Act 5	Luminarium-Ralegh Luminarium-Marlowe On Renaissance Pacifism and Militarism
	1/14	Elizabeth--The Love of Power and the Power of Love The London Theatre--Marlowe	Elizabeth		1078-1082;1084-5 1090-93 Watch Shakespeare in Love	Luminarium-Elizabeth Shakespeare in Love Web Page
	1/16	Music, lyric and pastoral meter and rhyme Class exercise	Sidney-Astrophel and Stella Marlowe--Ralegh dialogue Renaisssance song		1043-1046 1123-1125	The Shepherd's Philosophy
III	1/19	holiday
	1/21	The Great Globe itself Getty Trip preparation and assignment	William Shakespeare: The Tempest performance of Act2Scene2 section1 section2 class notes		Paper #1 1292-1353	Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet Triangulating Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe 2000 Shakespeare Illustrated Plot summary and guide to characters and themes of The Tempest
	1/23	The Tempest--Power and Magic	William Shakespeare: The Tempest		quiz	Progeny: Prospero's Books, Genesis and The Tempest
IV	1/26	The Renaissance Bible	King James Bible: Introduction papers returned-conference schedule		Shakespeare and the Bible, Introduction [pdf file] Complete book as webpage Prefatory Letter Article on KJV in BR Pico: Oration on the Dignity of Man	Luminarium--King James The banqueting house Images in the Sistine Chapel: Creating "the bigger light and less," God, Creation of Adam, Adam, The Fall, The Flood
	1/28	Creation and Genealogy	King James Bible: Genesis Reading Notes Lecture notes Lecture notes '04		chapters 1-11[creation and prehistory] 12, 17-19, 21-22 [Abraham] 25.11-34; 27-33[Jacob-Israel] 37-48[Joseph]
	1/30	National Liberation and Conquest;	King James Bible: Exodus, Joshua reading notes		Exodus: chapters 1-20, 32, 40 Joshua 1-6	Michaelangelo's Moses "Moses and Machiavellism"
V	2/2	Establishment of Monarchy and Empire	Judges, Samuel, Kings		Judges: chapters 11, 13-16 I Samuel: chapter 2: verse 12-26[Eli and Samuel]; chapter 17 [David and Goliath] II Samuel: chapter 11-13[David, Bathsheba, Absalom] I Kings: chapters 3-6; 11 narrative analysis paper
	2/4	Parable and Vision	King James Bible: Matthew Revelation Matthew reading notes Revelation reading notes		Matthew: chapters 1-11,13,26-28 Revelation: chapters 1, 4-7, 17-22 quiz	Renaissance Paintings of Gospel Subjects Durer's Apocalypse [student project] Revelations through Art[student project]
	2/6	Getty Trip	reader's theatre --chapters from Bible and Bacon
VI	2/9	Bacon: scepticism and experience	Francis Bacon Lecture notes		Getty paper 1747-1754 2 essays	Luminarium-Bacon
	2/11	The New Atlantis: Scientists	Francis Bacon Lecture notes		Bacon texts on website: New Atlantis, Novum Organum	David Rendel's project The Mind Unbound (Michael Sweeney)
	2/13	The New Jerusalem: Saints	The Civil Wars History of Plymouth Plantation		Milton, Areopagitica 1827-1837 Donne 1367-1371 Bradford 1371-1381 Private and communal farming Bay Psalm Book 1397-1400	King Charles I and family by Van Dyke
VII	2/16	holiday
	2/18	Biblical poetry, sacred and profane	King James Bible: Psalms, Song of Solomon Lecture notes		Psalms 1,2,19,22-24,42,51,137,148,150 Song of Solomon 1-4 John Donne: Expostulation 19 The H. Scriptures
	2/20	Holy Sonnets [meter and rhyme] Donne	John Donne: Lecture notes		John Donne 1647-8, 1662-1667 "Emblem, Style and Metaphor" 1699-1701; 1707-1709	Luminarium--Donne "Teaching in the School of Donne"
VIII	2/23	Herbert: The Temple	George Herbert		Redemption1686 Easter Wings 1688 Church Monuments 1691 The Windows 1691 Deniall 1692 Love (3) 1697	Luminarium--Herbert George Herbert site Cynthia Gaw's project
	2/25	Songs and Sonnets	John Donne		1648-1662 Creative Project Prospectus
	2/27	Wroth and Marvell			Mary Wroth 1668-1674 Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress 1730 The Garden 1733 An Horatian Ode 1735 Poem analysis paper	Luminarium--Wroth Luminarium--Marvell King Charles I and family by Van Dyke
IX	3/1	The Last Epic	Paradise Lost 1-4 Lecture Notes		1836-1912	A reader's guide to Paradise Lost Paintings and Illustrations of Paradise Lost
	3/3	The Creation	Milton, Paradise Lost 5-8 Lecture Notes		1912-1933 quiz
	3/5	Falling from Grace	Milton, Paradise Lost 9-12 Lecture Notes		1934-1985 cast for reading	"The Prophet Disarmed: Milton and the Quakers"
X	3/8	English in America			Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor
	3/10				Creative Project presentations Section 1 video Section 2 video Donne movie
	3/12	Final exam review			Thematic Analysis paper (1250 words)
	3/18	8:10-10:00-section 1 10:10-12:00- section 2			Final Exam

Texts

The Longman Anthology of British Literature, volume 1B [or all of volume 1]
Authorized King James Version of the Bible
Online selections linked to syllabus

Workload and Grading

15%--reading quizzes
35%--3 short papers [750-850 words]
10%--Getty paper
15%--longer paper [1100-1250 words]
10%--creative project [includes scene from Tempest]
15%--final exam

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Rules

Late papers are penalized one full grade for each class session's delay unless a postponement is granted by the instructor in advance.
Attendance is not optional. Each unexcused absence beyond two lowers the grade by one half letter; seven or more unexcused absences result in no credit. Three unexcused latenesses count for one absence. Certified medical absences or job interviews are not counted in these totals and are the only reason for makeups .
Deliberate plagiarism or other forms of cheating result in a failing grade and referral to the dean. Students are responsible for understanding the definition of plagiarism. Please consult the instructor if this Plagiarism and Documentation webpage the subject doesn't make it clear to you.