Faculty Committee
Patricia Fumerton, Richard Helgerson, Michael
O’Connell, Mark Rose
Reading
List
It is assumed that students taking the first qualifying
examination in the Renaissance will be familiar not only
with the following primary texts but also with the principal
critical and interpretive issues concerning these texts
and the period at large. Students are thus encouraged
to read widely in the relevant secondary literature.
Selections marked by an asterisk (*) can be found in
the seventh edition of the Norton Anthology of English
Literature (Volume 1). Those marked with a cross (+)
can be found in a booklet available for purchase at the
graduate desk. Questions concerning this list may be
directed to any of the faculty members who work in the
area.
Sir Thomas More, Utopia
Other writers of the early sixteenth century
John Skelton*
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder*
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey*
George Gascoigne
The Adventures of Master F.J.+
"Woodmanship"*
Other early Elizabethan writing
A Mirror for Magistrates, 1559 prefaces and tragedies
of Tresilian, Mortimer, Gloucester, Mowbray, and
Richard II+
Arthur Golding, Preface to Ovid's Metamophoses+
Isabella Whitney, "Will and Testament"*
Queen Elizabeth I*
Sir Philip Sidney
The Old Arcadia
An Apology for Poetry
Selected poems*
Edmund Spenser
Selections from The Shepheardes Calender*
The Faerie Queene, Books I, II, and III, Book VI, cantos 9-12, and the letter
to Raleigh
Selections from Amoretti*
Epithalamion*
Thomas Nashe
The Unfortunate Traveler
Selected poems and prose*
Other Elizabethan poets
Robert Southwell*
Mary (Sidney) Herbert*
Samuel Daniel*
Michael Drayton*
Thomas Campion*
Christopher Marlowe
The Jew of Malta
Doctor Faustus
"Hero and Leander"* and "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"*
William Shakespeare
At least eight plays, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant
of Venice,
1 Henry IV, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest
Selected poems*
Ben Jonson
Volpone
Bartholomew Fair
Selected poems*
Masques: Masque of Blackness*, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue+, and Oberon+
Other Renaissance drama
Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy
Anonymous, Arden of Faversham
Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker’s Holiday
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Changeling
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl
John Donne*
George Herbert*
Henry Vaughan*
Richard Crashaw*
Robert Herrick*
Andrew Marvell*
John Milton
Comus
Paradise Lost
Selected poetry and prose*
Other seventeenth-century poets
Thomas Carew*
Sir John Suckling*
Richard Lovelace*
Edmund Waller*
Abraham Cowley*
Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Miriam
Mary Wroth
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus*
Book 1 of Urania
Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (including
the dedicatory poems and "The Description of Cooke-ham")
Other seventeenth-century women writers
Katherine Philips*
Margaret Cavendish*
Lucy Hutchinson*
Lady Anne Halkett*
Anna Trapnel*
The Controversy about Women: Hic Mulier and Haec Vir+
Seventeenth-century prose writers
Richard Hooker*
Francis Bacon*
King James I+
Thomas Hobbes*
Revised 6/02
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