PRESENTATIONS FOR ENGLISH 211 BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1760
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2015

EMAIL | SYLLABUS | POLICIES | QUESTIONS | PRESENTATIONS | JOURNALS | PAPER | FINAL

WEEK 2

01/28. Wed. Geoffrey Chaucer. From The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” (Vol. A, 282-301).

Chaucer. Presenter: OPEN. (Presentation Completed.)

01/30. Fri. Geoffrey Chaucer. From The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” (Vol. A, 301-10).

Chaucer. Presenter: OPEN. (Presentation Completed.)

WEEK 3

02/02. Mon. Sir Thomas Malory. From Morte Darthur (Vol. A, 482-500).

Malory. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

02/04. Wed. Everyman (Vol. A, 508-29).

Everyman. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

02/06. Fri. Sir Thomas Wyatt. “The long love” and Petrarch’s “Rima 140” (Vol. B, 648-49); “Whoso list to hunt” and Petrarch’s “Rima 140” (649-50); “My galley” (651); “Divers doth use” (652); “Madam, withouten many words” (653); “They flee from me” (653-54); “My lute, awake!” (655); “Forget not yet” (656); “Blame not my lute” (656-57); “Who list his wealth and ease retain” (658); “Mine Own John Poins” (659-61).

Wyatt. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

Wyatt. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

WEEK 4

02/09. Mon. Sir Philip Sidney and Christopher Marlowe. Sidney’s “The Defense of Poesy” (Vol. B, 1046-51, 1066-74 only). Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander” (1108-26), “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (Vol. B, 1126).

Sidney. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

Marlowe. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

02/11. Wed. Edmund Spenser. “Epithalamion” (Vol. B, 990-99).

Spenser. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

02/13. Fri. Queen Elizabeth I. All Selections (Vol. B, 749-59).

Elizabeth I. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

Elizabeth I. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

WEEK 5

02/16. Mon. Presidents’ Day. No classes. Campus closed.

02/18. Wed. Sir Walter Ralegh. “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” (Vol. B, 1024-25); “What is our life? (1025); “…to His Son” (1025); “The Lie” (1026-27); “Farewell, False Love” (1028); “Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay” (1028-29); “Nature, that washed her hands in milk” (1029-30); “The Author’s Epitaph…” (1030); from The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana (1030-33) and from The History of the World (1033-34).

Ralegh. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

02/20. Fri. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act 1 (Vol. B, 1189-1204).

WEEK 6

02/23. Mon. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act 2 (Vol. B, 1204-18).

Shakespeare. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

02/25. Wed. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act 3 (Vol. B, 1219-35).

Shakespeare. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

02/27. Fri. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act 4 (Vol. B, 1235-41).

Shakespeare. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

WEEK 7

03/02. Mon. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act 5 (Vol. B, 1241-50).

Shakespeare. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

03/04. Wed. John Donne. “The Flea” (Vol. B, 1373); “The Good-Morrow” (1373-74); “The Sun Rising” (1376); “The Canonization” (1377-78); “A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day” (1382-84); “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (1385-86); “The Ecstasy” (1386-88).

Donne. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

03/06. Fri. John Donne. From Holy Sonnets (Vol. B, 1410-15), “Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward” (1415-16); from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and “Death’s Duel” (1419-24).

Donne. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

WEEK 8

03/09. Mon. Ben Jonson. “On My First Daughter” (Vol. B, 1541); “On Lucy, Countess of Bedford” (1542-43); “Inviting a Friend to Supper” (1544-45); “To Penshurst” (1546-48); “Song: To Celia” (1548-49);”To the Memory of my Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare” (1556-58), “Ode to Himself” (1558-59).

Jonson. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

Jonson. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

03/11. Wed. Sir Francis Bacon. Essays (Vol. B, 1663-75).

Bacon. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

03/13. Fri. Sir Francis Bacon. From The Advancement of Learning (Vol. B, 1675-77) and from Novum Organum (1677-81). Read also selection from William Harvey’s The Anatomical Exercises (1687-88) and from Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1690-96).

Bacon. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

Bacon. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

Burton. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

WEEK 9

03/16. Mon. Milton. Paradise Lost, Book 1 (Vol. E, 1945-64).

Milton. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

03/18. Wed. Milton. Paradise Lost, Book 1 (Vol. E, 1945-64).

Milton. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

03/20. Fri. Milton. Paradise Lost, Book 2 (Vol. E, 1964-86).

Milton. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.

WEEK 10

03/23. Mon. Milton. Paradise Lost, Book 4 (Vol. E, 2003-24).

Milton. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

03/25. Wed. Milton. Paradise Lost, Book 9 (Vol. E, 2091-2116).

Milton. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

03/27. Fri. Milton. Paradise Lost, Book 9 (Vol. E, 2091-2116).

Milton. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

WEEK 11

03/30. Mon. Spring recess. No classes.

04/01. Wed. Spring recess. No classes.

04/03. Fri. Spring recess. No classes.

WEEK 12

04/06. Mon. Aphra Behn. Oroonoko (Vol. F, 2313-58; read approx. the first half).

04/08. Wed. Aphra Behn. Oroonoko (Vol. F, 2313-58; read approx. the second half).

Behn. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

04/10. Fri. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock (Vol. F, 2686-2704).

Pope. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

WEEK 13

04/13. Mon. Pope. “Eloisa to Abelard” (Vol. F, 2705-13).

Pope. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

04/15. Wed. Pope. from “Essay on Criticism” (Vol. F, 2713-21).

04/17. Fri. John Gay. The Beggar’s Opera, Introduction and Act 1 (Vol. F, 2789-2803).

Gay. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

WEEK 14

04/20. Mon. John Gay. The Beggar’s Opera, Act 2 (Vol. F, 2803-18).

Gay. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

04/22. Wed. John Gay. The Beggar’s Opera, Act 3 (Vol. F, 2818-33).

Gay. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

04/24. Fri. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. “The Aims of the Spectator” (Vol. F, 2644-46); “Inkle and Yarico” (2647-49); “The Royal Exchange” (2649-52) “Wit: True, False, Mixed” (2652-56); “Paradise Lost: General Critical Remarks” (2657-60); “The Pleasures of the Imagination” (2660-62); “On the Scale of Being” (2662-65).

Addison and Steele. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

Addison and Steele. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

WEEK 15

04/27. Mon. Samuel Johnson. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, Chs. 1-29 (Vol. F, 2856-95).

Johnson. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

04/29. Wed. Samuel Johnson. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, Chs. 30-49 (Vol. F, 2896-2923).

Johnson. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

05/01. Fri. Samuel Johnson. Rambler #4 “On Fiction” (Vol. F, 2923-26); “The Preface to Shakespeare” (Vol. F, 2936-47).

Johnson. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

WEEK 16

05/04. Mon. Thomas Boswell. From The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Vol. F, 2962-92).

05/06. Wed. Frances Burney. From Journal and Letters. (Vol. F, 2993-3011).

Burney. Presenter: STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)

05/08. Fri. General Review.

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Date: Wednesday, May 13 from 9:30-11:20 a.m. Essay due by email by Sunday, May 17.