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.