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Elizabethan Drama:
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Tamburlaine, Part I
Tamburlaine, Part 2
The Jew of Malta
Dr. Faustus
Edward II
Thomas Kyd (1587?)
The Spanish Tragedy
Anonymous
Arden of Faversham
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
(Histories, Early Comedies, Romantic Comedies, and Early Tragedies)
Taming of the Shrew
Titus Andronicus
I Henry VI
Richard III
Comedy of Errors
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Richard II
I Henry IV
II Henry IV
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry V
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
(Great Tragedies and Dark Comedies)
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Othello
(Elizabethan Plays; Jacobean Plays)
Measure for Measure
King Lear
Macbeth
(Romances)
Winter’s Tale
Cymbeline
The Tempest
Thomas Dekker
The Shoemakers Holiday
Thomas Heywood
A Woman Killed With Kindness
Jacobean Drama:
John Marston
The Dutch Courtesan
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Volpone
The Alchemist
Bartholomew Fair
Every Man in his Humor
Thomas Middleton
The Revenger’s Tragedy
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
The Changeling
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker
The Roaring Girl
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Philaster or Love Lies a Bleeding
John Webster (1580-1625)
The Duchess of Malfi
Caroline Drama:
John Ford
‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore
Poetry:
John Skelton (1460-1529)
"The Tunnyng of Elynour
Rummyng,"
"Phyllup Sparowe"
“Bowge of Court”
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503-1542)
"Whoso List
to Hunt"
“My Lute, Awake!”
"They fle from me"
"The lover showeth how he is forsaken"
"The longe love that
in my thought doth harbor"
"Madam, Withouten Many Words"
"Blame Not My Lute"
Henry Howard, Early of Surrey (1517-1547)
“The
Soote Season”
“Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace”
“Epitaph
on Sir Thomas Wyatt”
George Gascoigne (1539-1578)
"Dedicatory Epistle" to
The Poesies,
“The Steele Glasse”
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
The Faerie Queene
Amoretti
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
“The Nymph’s
Reply to the Shepherd”
“The Lie”
“Methought I Saw the Grave Where Laura Lay”
Sidney (1554-1586)
"Astrophel and Stella"
“The Nightingale”
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
“Hero and Leander”
“The Passionate Shepherd to His
Love”
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The sonnets
“Venus and Adonis”
John Donne (1572-1631)
"An Anatomie of the World"
"The Canonization"
"A Valediction: Of Weeping"
"Love's Alchemy"
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
"The Ecstacy"
All Elegies
All Satires
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)
“Eve’s Apology in Defense of
Women”
“The Description
of Cooke-ham”
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
"On My First
Son"
"Ode to Himself"
"To Penshurst"
"To the Memory of . . . Shakespeare,"
All the epigrams.
Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651)
Pamphilia to Amphilanlhus
The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
“Upon the Loss of His
Mistress”
“The Vine”
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
“His Prayer to
Ben Jonson”
George Herbert (1593-1633)
All poems from The Temple
John Milton (1608-1674)
“Paradise Lost”
"L'Allegro"
The sonnets
Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
“The Flaming Heart”
“I Am the Door”
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
“To His Coy Mistress”
“The Nymph Complaining for the
Death of Her Fawn”
“The
Garden”
Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
“The World”
“The Night”
Prose Non-Fiction:
Roger Ascham (1515-1568)
The Schoolmaster
Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603)
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Castiglione
The Book of the Courtier
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Defense of Poesie
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil
Robert Greene
Three Elizabethan Pamphlets
A notable discovery of coosnage 1591 : the second part of
conny-catching
The thirde & last part of conny-catching, with
the new devised knauish art of foole-taking; the like cosenages and villenies
neuer before discouered. A dispvtation betweene a hee conny-catcher and
a shee conny-catcher.
The blacke bookes messenger, 1592. Cuthbert
Conny-catcher: The defence of conny-catching.
FrancisBacon (1561-1626)
"Of Truth"
"Of Marriage and the Single Life"
"Of Superstition"
John Milton
"The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates"
"Eikonoklastes"
John Locke
Essay Concerning Human Understanding ("Epistle to the Reader")
Sir Walter Raleigh
The discoverie of Guiana
Thomas Dekker
“The Belman of London”
Prose Fiction:
Thomas More
Utopia
George Gascoigne
Adventures of Master F. J
Sir Philip Sidney
Old Arcadia
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
Robert Greene
Pandosto
John Lodge
Rosalind
Thomas Nashe
The Unfortunate Traveller
Secondary Readings:
Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning:
From More to Shakespeare.
---. Shakespearean Negotiations.
Kastan, David Scott and Peter Stallybrass, Staging
the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama.
Stanley Fish, Seventeenth-Century Prose: Modern
Essays in Criticism
---. Self-Consuming Artifacts
Richard Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood
Margaret Ferguson, Rewriting the Renaissance
Gamini Salgado, The Elizabethan Underworld
Joseph H. Marshburn, Blood and Knavery: A Collection
of English Renaissance Pamphlets and Ballads of Crime and Sin
Fran Dolan, Dangerous Familiars
Old English Poetry (to be read in translation):
“Beowulf”
“Cædmon's Hymn”
“The Dream of the Rood”
“The Battle of Maldon”
“The Wife’s
Lament”
Middle English Poetry:
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Troilus and Criseyde
Book of the Duchess
The House of Fame
John Gower
Confessio Amantis, Prologue and Bks
7 & 8.
Dante
Inferno
Purgatorio
Romances:
Pearl
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun
Romance of the Rose
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Thomas Malory
Le Morte D’arthur
Devotional Works:
Julian of Norwich
A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich
Margery Kempe
The Book of Margery Kempe
Medieval Drama:
Everyman
The York Mystery plays
Mankind
The Croxton Play of the Sacrament
Mary Magdalene Secondary Readings:
Fragmentation and Redemption, edited by Caroline Walker Bynum
Chaucer and the Subject of History, Lee Patterson
Rude andBarbarous Kingdom: Russia in the Accounts of Sixteenth-Century
English Voyagers, Lloyd E. Berry & Robert O. Crummey
“The Theatricality of Medieval English Plays,” Meg
Twycross, from The Cambridge Companion to Meideval English Theatre,
ed. Richard Beadle.
English Society in the Later Middle Ages, Maurice Keen
Social Chaucer, Paul Strohm
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