EN 251: British Literature I
Fall Semester 2006
Section A: Tuesday and Friday 8:00-9:15 AM in CNS 15
Section B: Tuesday and Friday 12:30-1:45 PM in CNS 15
Syllabus
Subject to revision
PART ONE: MEDIEVAL ROMANCE
Friday 9/8:Introduction; Marie de France, "Lanval"
Tuesday 9/12: Sir Thomas Malory,"The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney"
Friday 9/15: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part I
Tuesday 9/19: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Parts II and III
Second response paper.
Friday 9/22: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part IV
Tuesday 9/26: Geoffrey Chaucer, Selections from the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Friday 9/29: Chaucer: Selections from the Wife of Bath's Prologue
Tuesday 10/3: Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Tale
Third response paper.
Friday 10/6: Chaucer: The Franklin's Tale
Tuesday 10/10: Thesis workshop
PART TWO: RENAISSANCE DRAMA 
Friday 10/13: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Acts 1and 2
Tuesday 10/17: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Acts 3 and 4
Fourth response paper.
Friday 10/20: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5
Tuesday 10/24: Shakespeare, King Lear, Acts 1 and 2
Fifth response paper.
Friday 10/27: Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3
Tuesday 10/31: Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4
Sixth response paper.
Friday 11/3: Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5
Tuesday 11/7: Mid-term Exam
Friday 11/10: Ben Jonson, "Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue" and "The Masque of Blackness"
Tuesday 11/14: Shakespeare, The Tempest, Acts 1 and 2
Seventh response paper.
Friday 11/17: Shakespeare, The Tempest, Acts 3 and 4
Tuesday 11/21: Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 5
Eighth response paper.
Friday 11/24: No class meeting -- Thanksgiving Holiday.
PART THREE: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY
Tuesday 11/28: Alexander Pope, selections from An Essay on Man
Ninth response paper.
Friday 12/1: Alexander Pope, "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot," The Rape of the Lock (Letter to Arabella Fermor and Canto 1); Jonathan Swift, "Description of a City Shower"
Tuesday 12/5: The Rape of the Lock, Cantos 2-3
Friday 12/8: The Rape of the Lock, Cantos 4-5
Tuesday 12/12: Jonathan Swift, “The Lady’s Dressing Room”; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem called The Lady’s Dressing Room”
Tenth response paper.
Saturday 12/16, 6:00 PM: Final Exam-- Section A
Monday 12/18, 1:30 PM: Final Exam-- Section B