Michel Foucault, from Preface to The Order of Things
Selections from UCSB General Catalogue, 2001-2002
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, 1.3.75-137
Milton, Paradise Lost, V.469-505
Marlowe, Tamburlaine I, 2.7.12-29
Chain of Being Diagram1
Chain of Being Diagram2

Suggested Reading: E.M. W. Tillyard, Elizabethan World Picture

Background on the English Renaissance
Index of English Renaissance sites

William Shakespeare, Richard II, Acts 1-3

Suggested Reading: Stephen Orgel, "Gendering the Crown," in Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture, ed. Margret de Grazia et al, pp. 133-65

Shakespeare, Richard II, Acts 4-5

Selections from Emblem Books (Reader)
Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 3, canto 6 (Norton, pp. 826-39)

Suggested Reading: Rosemary Freeman, English Emblem Books

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 1, cantos 1, 4, 10 (Norton, pp. 628-41, 662-74, 734-50)

The Court Masque
Ben Jonson, "An Expostulation with Inigo Jones" and "To Inigo, Marguis Would-Be: A Corollary" (Reader)
D.J. Gordon, "Poet and Architect," from The Renaissance Imagination, pp. 77-101 (Reader)

Suggested Reading: Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, ed. Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Vol. I, pp. 1-14, in EMC library

MID-TERM DUE

The Court Masque
Ben Jonson, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue (Reader; see also background information about Pleasure Reconciled in Inigo Jones: Theatre of the Stuart Court, in EMC library)

Coastal Charts and Barlow
Edward Barlow, selections from his Journal, pp. 11-75, 92-100, 174-178
Barlow's Family

Optional Reading: Richard Helgerson's, "The Folly of Maps and Modernity" and his "The Land Speaks" (both in Reader)

NO CLASS

FIRST PAPER DUE; in my mailbox, noon (3-4 pp.)

Selected Ballads in modern edition, mostly from Roxburghe collection (Reader); facsimiles will be distributed in class:
"Saint Bernard's Vision"
"A Lanthorne for Landlords"
"The Map of Mock-Beggar Hall"
"The Good Fellows Frolick"
"Good Ale for my Money"
"A Health to all Good-Fellowes"
"The Industrious Smith"
"A Merry Discourse"
"The Lamentation of a New Married Man"
"A Merry Dialogue betwixt a married man and his wife"
"Robin and Kate"
"Anne Wallen's Lamentation" (from Pepys collection)
"The Lady and the Blackamoor"

From Pepys facsimile edition (in Reader but only very readable in edition in EMC library):
"A Fooles Bolt is soon shot" (Vol. I, pp. 178-79)

Pepys Facsimile Ballads about Seamen (in Reader but only very readable in edition in EMC):
"Saylors for my money" (Vol I, pp. 420-421)
"A dainty new Ditty of a Saylor and his Love" (Vol. IV, p. 157)
"The Seamans leave taken of his Sweetest Margery" (Vol. IV, p. 158)
"Voyage to Virginia" (Vol. IV, p. 159)
"The Semens Wives Frolick over a Bowl of Punch" (Vol. IV, p. 184)
"The Seamans sorrowful Bride" (Vol. IV, p. 193)
"The Boatswains Call" (Vol. IV, p. 206)
"The Mothers Kindness" (Vol. IV, p. 212)
"The Seamans Deceit" (Vol. IV, p. 220)

Roxburghe Ballads about Seamen (Reader)
"A pleasant new song between a Seaman and his Love" (Reader)
"A New Song of Nelly's sorrow"
"A New Song of Henry setting forth to Sea"
"An excellent New Song, call'd Nelly's Constancy"
"The Seaman's Answer to his Unkind Lover"
"The Faithful Mariner"

Suggested Reading: Natascha Wurzbach, The Rise of the English Street Ballad, 1550-1650; Joy Wiltenburg, Disorderly Women and Female Power in the Street Literature of Early Modern England and Germany

Renaissance Lyrics
Sir Thomas Wyatt, "Madam, Withouten Many Words," "Whoso List to Hunt," "They Flee From Me" (Norton, pp. 529, 527, 529-30)
Sir Phillip Sidney, from Astrophil and Stella, sonnets 1 (Norton, p. 917), and sonnet 3 and 11 (Reader)
William Shakespeare, Sonnets 18, 20, 73, 130 (Norton, pp. 1031, 1035, 1040)
John Donne, "The Canonization," "A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy's Day," "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," "The Ecstasy," "The Relic," "Holy Sonnet 10" (Norton, pp. 1240-41, 1245-46, 1248-49, 1249-51, 1253-56, 1270)

Perspective Systems: Icons, Annunciations, and Architecture
"The Art of Renaissance Perspective: Galileo and Perspective" (sections to read: "Renaissance Art and Mathematical Perspective," "From Human Architecture to Architectural Structure," and "Conclusion")
OR read
"Perspective" (read for general ideas), from The Oxford Companion to Art, ed. Harold Osborne (Reader)

Suggested Reading: Mary Ann Caws, "The Annunciation of a Test: Rilke and the Birth of the Poem, from The Eye of the Text, pp. 104-21

Family Portraits
Jonathan Goldberg, "Fatherly Authority: Politics of the Family," from James I and the Politics of Literature (Reader)
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Acts 1-3

Suggested Reading: Catherine Belsey, "Distrupting Sexual Difference: Meaning and Gender in the Comedies," from Alternative Shakespeares, pp. 166-90)

SECOND PAPER DUE (7-8 pp.)

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Acts 4-5

TAKE-HOME FINAL (10 double-spaced pages max.)
Due Tuesday, June 10, 5 pm., my departmental mailbox