English 330: Introduction to Renaissance Studies
Professor Rebecca Bushnell

Office: 116 Bennett Hall
Office tel.: 898-8220, 898-7341
E-mail: rebecca@reality.sas.upenn.edu
Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 3:00-4:00, and by appointment


COURSE HOMEPAGE (source for visual materials):
     URL = http://www.english.upenn.edu/~bushnell/english-330


COURSE LISTSERVER: bushnell330@english.upenn.edu 
     [use this to communicate with all course members] 


BOOKS (Available at Penn Book Center, Walnut Street):
   Jonson, en, Bartholomew Fair
   Heywood, Thomas. A Woman Killed with Kindness (Norton, 1986).
   Shakespeare, William.  Hamlet (New Penguin).
   Shakespeare, William, Twelfth Night
   Norton Anthology of English Literature: Vol. I,  sixth
          edition, paperback ed. M.H. Abrams, et al.
   Harriot, Thomas. Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of
	Virginia

BULKPACK: At Campus Copy Center, 3907 Walnut Street


WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS (instructions to follow):

   1) OED exercise.
   2) Web search exercise.
   3) STC exercise.
   4) MLA exercise.
   4) 20-pp. paper.



CLASS ASSIGNMENTS:

[NOTE: Readings marked (NA) can be found in the Norton Anthology]


I. INTRODUCTION

Jan. 14:  Introduction: the mapping of early modern Britain 


II. COURT CULTURE

Jan. 16:  Thomas Wyatt, "They flee from me";"Farewell,Love,"  "Who so list     
          to hunt";
            "Mine own John Poins" (NA).
         Philip Sidney, from Astrophil and Stella, sonnets 1, 2,
            5, 9, 47 & 53 (NA).
          Excerpt from article by Marotti (bulkpack)
          Web page:  portrait miniature by Hilliard 

Jan. 21:  John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (NA). Discuss OED exercise.
          due, Jan. 28

Jan. 23:  Webster, The Duchess of Malfi 
       

Jan. 28.  Webster, The Duchess of Malfi.  OED exercise due [instructions
to follow]


III. URBAN LIFE

Jan. 30:  Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair
         In Web page: maps of London; illustrations of the public 
            theater; see also maps of Middlesex and London in 
            "Introduction" materials; post to listserver to comment on
            maps

Feb. 4:  Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, cont.
         John Stow, Survey of London, selection (bulkpack). Discuss Web
            search exercise: due Feb. 13

Feb. 6:  Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, cont.  Read excerpt from Stallybrass
           and White {in bulkpack]

IV. RURAL PLEASURES AND LABORS

Feb 11:  Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to his 
            Love" (NA).
         Andrew Marvell, "The Garden,"  "Damon the Mower," "The 
            Mower Against the Gardens" (NA).
         Ben Jonson, "To Penshurst" (NA).
         Robert Herrick, "The Hock-Cart or Harvest Home,"
            "Corinna's Going A-Maying" (NA).
         Web page: woodcuts from Edmund Spenser's Shepherd's 
            Calender; pictures of Penshurst and Hatfield House; 
            maps of country estates; post to listserv comments on
            differences between Penshurst and Hatfield

Feb 13:  Gervase Markham, The English Husbandman, Chapters 1, 2, & 
           15 (bulkpack).
        Web page: illustration from Markham; see maps of country 
           estates.
        Web Search exercise due [Instructions to follow].


V. NEW WORLDS/NEW SCIENCE

Feb 18:    Thomas Hariot, A brief and true report of the new found 
           land of Virginia (bulkpack).
         Web page: early modern maps of world

Feb. 20:  Selection from Francis Bacon (NA)



Feb. 25:  Interlude: Meet in STC room in Van Pelt for STC exercise 
            [write-up due on March 4]


VI. THE NEW STATE AND THE NATION

Feb. 27:  Shakespeare, King Lear (NA).
         In Web page: portraits of various monarchs (see also 
            portrait of Elizabeth I in introduction material and 
            Charles I in the family materials)


March 4:  Shakespeare, King Lear, cont. (NA).
         Excerpt from James I, A Speech to the Lords and Commons 
            of the Parliament at Whitehall (1609) (bulkpack).
         Sir John Harrington, Letter describing the Revels at King 
            James' Court (bulkpack).
         STC exercise due

March 6: Shakespeare, King Lear, cont. Read Excerpt from McLuskie on Lear
         [in bulkpack] Discuss MLA exercise, due March 27


BREAK

March 18. Shakespeare, King lear, cont.  In Web pahe: compare quarto and
	folio texts and post a comment to the listserver


VII. THE NEW FAMILY AND SEXUALITY

March 20: Shakespeare, Twelfth Night


March 25: Shakesspeare, Twelfth Night, cont.  In bulkpack,Thomas Vicary, A
            Profitable Treatise of the Anatomy of 
            Mans Body (an anatomy book), on the members of 
            generation pp. 73-83] (bulkpack).
         In Web page: anatomical illustrations.

March, 27. No class.MLA bibliography exercise due


April 1. In NA: John Donne, "Elegy 16," "The Ecstasy," "The Sun Rising,"
"Canonization,""Valediction Forbidding Mourning." In bulk-pack, excerpt
from WIlliam Whately, A Bride Bush (a marriage manual) 

April 3: Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness.
        In Web page: family portraits.

VIII. THE NEW CHURCH

April 8:  Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (NA).
         In Web page: woodcuts of 
            martyrs from John Foxe. Paper topic due

April 10:  Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, cont.In Web page: A and B texts of
Faustus.  Post comment to listserver on difference bewteen two texts.
        

April 15.  In NA:  George Herbert, "The Altar," "Easter Wings," "Jordan
	I,"  "Jordan II," "The Collar," "Prayer," "The Windows," "Denial",
"Love 3" (NA).
         In Web page: selected emblems; defacement of church 
            images. Paper Drafts due.
         


IX. THE NEW SUBJECT


April 17:  Shakespeare, Hamlet.
         Web page: some variant pages from quartos and folios. 


April 22:  Shakespeare, Hamlet, cont. [comparative film versions in 
           this context]
         Paper drafts returned.

April 24:  Shakespeare, Hamlet, and conclusion
         Web page: portrait miniatures

April 30:  Papers due.