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Schedule of Readings and Assignment Deadlines

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Unit I: Romance Origins

 

January 27: Introductions

 

Readings:
No Readings this week. We will have a general introduction to the topic and spend some time in the library familiarizing ourselves with the resources available for our research this semester.
Assignment: 
What does "romance" mean to you in the study of literature? Bring an example to class, if you'd like, to illustrate!

 

February 3: Medieval Romance

 

Readings:

Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain (Historia Regum Britanniae)

Helen Cooper, Introduction, The English Romance in Time

Barbara Fuchs, Introduction, Romance
Presentation:
 

 

February 10:

 

Readings:

Miguel de Cervantes, selections from Don Quijote (Book I, Chapters 1-5, 28-35) 

Diana de Armas Wilson, "'Passing the Love of Women'": The Intertexuality of El Curioso Impertinente"
Presentation:
Liz Bonhag

 

February 17:

 

Readings:

Thomas Heywood, The Foure Prentises of London (1615)

Cyrus Mulready, "'Asia of the One Side, and Afric of the Other': Sidney's Unities and the Staging of Romance"
Presentation:
Selena Hughes

 

Feb. 24:

 

Readings:

Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Valerie Wayne and Mary Ellen Lamb, "Introduction: Into the Forest"
Presentation:
Wayne and Lamb- Allison Baskind

 

March 3:

 

Readings:

Anonymous, Mucedorus

Barbara Mowat, "'What's in a Name?' Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy?"
Presentation:
Roy Verspoor

 

March 10:

 

Readings:

Shakespeare, Henry V

Joanne Altieri, "Romance in Henry V"
Presentation:
Jen Hoover

 

March 17:

 

Readings:

Shakespeare, Cymbeline

Valerie Wayne, "Romancing the Wager: Cymbeline's Intertexts" 
Presentation:
Erin Williams
Assignments: Short Response Essay Due

 

March 24: NO CLASS--SPRING BREAK

 

March 31:

 

Readings:

Apollonius of Tyre

Northrop Frye, Selection from  The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance

Presentation:
Jeffrey Canino

 

April 7:

 

Readings:

Shakespeare, Pericles

Lori Newcomb, "The Sources of Romance, the Generation of Story, and the Patterns of Pericles Tales"
Presentation:
Samantha Taylor

 

April 14:

 

Readings:

Shakespeare, The Tempest

Selections from the Strachey letter and Montaigne (in Norton Critical Edition)

Stephen Greenblatt, "Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne," from Shakespearean Negotiations
Presentation:
Mark Schaefer

 

April 21:

 

Readings:

Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

Valerie Forman, "Poverty, Surplus Value, and Theatrical Investment in The Winter's Tale" 
Presentation:
 Andrew Rivas

 

April 28: No Class This Week--Attend Either Walter Cohen's Lecture on Friday, the 29th, or the Graduate Symposium on Saturday, April 30th

 

May 5: Seminar Mini-Conference

 

Monday, May 9th: Final Papers Due in my office by 5:00

 

May 19: Presentations of Collaborative Final Project

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