Students are expected to attend every class session, read all the assigned works, hand in several short worksheets, and take a midterm and final exams. The workload will most likely vary from five to ten hours per week, depending on the reading level of the student.

class 1: introduction; history and language

class2: Beowulf, lines 1--85, 491--835, 1251--1650, 2999--3182

class 3: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I.130--490, IV.2239--end; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue 1--50, 447--478

class 4: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (handout)

class 5: Chaucer (cont'd)

class 6: William Langland, Pers Plowman, Passus 6

class 7: The Second Shepherd's Play

class 8: Thomas More, Utopia; Thomas Wyatt, "Whoso list\dots,'' ``I find\dots,''

class 9: William Tyndale, Thomas More, John Calvin, John Foxe, homilies: pp. 677--678, 679--681, 681--687, 688, 693--695

class 10: MIDTERM EXAM

class 11: Roger Ascham, Thomas Hoby, Elizabeth I: pp. 700--703, 704--720, 750--766}

class 12: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti 1, 37, 54, 65, 75, 79; The Faerie Queene Book I, Cantos 2, 6

class 13: John Lyly, Euphues; Philip Sidney, Defense of Poesy and Astrohple and Stella 1, 5, 41, 52, 71; Francis Bacon``On Truth''

class 14: Christopher Marlowe,"The Passionate Shepherd" and Dr. Faustus, scenes 1, 5, 12, 13

class 15: William Shakespeare, sonnets 3, 20, 29, 73, 94, 106, 116, 130, 138, 144, 147 and Twelfth Night, Acts I--II

class 16: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Acts III--IV

class 17: William Shakespeare}{\textit{Twelfth Night, Act V}

class 18: FINAL EXAM

Depending on their availability and competence, teaching assistants may be responsible for grading worksheets and exams; developing, copying, and distributing additional materials; and leading class discussions.

Grades will be based on the midterm exam (40%), final exam (40%), and worksheets (20%). Points may be deducted for missed class sessions or obvious unpreparedness.

required: _The Norton Anthology of English Literature_, vol. 1 (Ninth edition), or vols. A and B (tenth edition).

recommended reading: C.S. Lewis, _The Discarded Image_. E.M.W. Tillyard, _The Elizabethan World Picture_.