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MA in English - Texts & Contexts: Medieval to Renaissance
2013-2014
Kilcolman Castle, Doneraile, Co. Cork
Course Handbook
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MA – ‘Texts and Contexts: Medieval to Renaissance’ Course Syllabus
Welcome to the Medieval and Renaissance MA!
This MA is designed to introduce students to writing in English from these islands in the
period circa 700 to 1700, as well as to the cultural relationships between English writing
and related European literatures, including classical, insular, and Old Norse-Icelandic
traditions.
In addition to a research dissertation and two courses in research methods and
preparation, students take three core modules and one elective module in Medieval and
Renaissance English, allowing enhanced specialisation in medieval writing (Old and
Middle English, with Renaissance English) or later medieval and Renaissance English
(from c. 1200-1700). Both pathways are designed to provide students with a greater
awareness of the conceptual and critical issues involved in the study of earlier writing,
some of the historical and cultural contexts that the study of this period involves, and also
some sense of how early writing has been re-appropriated in modern texts and media,
from the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, to Shakespeare on film.
The UCC School of English‟s Medieval and Renaissance MA is unique in Ireland for
offering students the earliest English writing (Anglo-Saxon or Old English) in addition to
later medieval and Renaissance English. The programme emphasises the continuities
between medieval and Renaissance writing, investigates the beginnings of Anglo-Irish
writing, and engages closely with an English Renaissance poet who lived and worked in
Cork in the 16th century, and produced his most significant work there: Edmund Spenser.
The course also lays the foundation of study at higher degree level. It introduces the
subject-specific skills that are required (use of databases, bibliographies, palaeography,
codicology, analysis of the physical composition of printed texts), as well as developing
generic skills (writing, referencing, presentation skills) that will be useful as you embark
on a scholarly project or career.
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COURSE STRUCTURE
The MA is 90-credit course, and consists of three elements:
Element 1: Core course in Medieval and Renaissance English (40 credits)
In this element, students take four 10-credit courses in medieval and renaissance English,
from the five offered (A-E), as follows:
In TP1, students take two ten-credit courses, as follows:
EN 6052: New Histories of the Book: theories and practices of earlier writing (Course
A), PLUS
EN 6053: Old English Literature, to c. 1200 (Course B) OR
EN 6052: New Histories of the Book (Course A) AND EN 6055: Texts and
Transformations: Medieval to Renaissance (Course E)
In TP2 students take
EN 6051: Middle English Literature, 1200-1550 (Course C) AND
EN 6054: Renaissance Literature, c. 1500-1700 (Course D)
With the agreement of the MA programmes and head of School, one 10-credit module
may be substituted from other English MA programmes.
Element 2: EN 6009 Literary Research: Skills, Methods and Strategies (10 credits)
Period of Study: October to mid-February
Hours of Study: 12 x 1 hours seminars
Students will compile a research journal in ePortfolio format and undertake other self-
directed research tasks, culminating in an oral presentation of the proposed dissertation
topic. Please note a separate timetable will be issued for this course.
Element 3: EN 6017 Dissertation (40 credits)
Period of Research and Supervision: March to September
Length of dissertation: 15,000-17,000 words
Submission deadline: Friday, October 3, 2014 to the Exams / Records office, West Wing,
UCC
Mandatory courses are in white; options in grey
TP1: choose
A and B OR
A and E (in
addition to
EN 6009)
Course
A (New
Histories
of the
Book)
Course B
(Old
English)
Course E
(Texts and
Transformations:
Medieval to
Renaissance)
EN 6009
(Contemporary Research
Methods)
TP2
Course C
(Middle
English)
Course D (Renaissance
English)
Summer:
April-
September
Dissertation of 15,000-17, 000 words
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Modules A-E will each comprise 10 X 2 hour classes and will be assessed by one 3,000
essay each. Attendance, preparation and contribution is worth 20 % of each module.
One hardcopy of each essay is to be submitted to the School of English, main office, by
4.00 p.m. on the due date, accompanied by a Turnitin receipt.
Course A: EN 6052: New Histories of the Book: theories and practices of earlier
writing
10 credits, Teaching period 1.
This module introduces students to how books were made and how texts were written and
circulated in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The class will gain experience of reading
from manuscripts and from early printed books using facsimiles and electronic resources,
and will explore the literary implications of reading medieval texts in their original
textual environment. The course will also explore earlier theories of writing, authorship,
and audience.
Teaching methods: 10 x 2 hours seminars plus directed study (associated reading and
consultation hours).
The essay assigned for this course is due Wednesday January 8. Titles will be issued in
the week of November 25.
Course B: EN 6053: Old English Literature, to c. 1200
10 credits, Teaching period 1.
(Please note students may take course E, described below, in lieu of this module).
This module focuses on reading Old English poetry and prose in its literary, material and
cultural context, placing canonical texts such as Beowulf and The Wanderer in dialogue
with less-studied works. We will consider issues such as authorship and authority,
manuscript compilation and genre, and the political and gendered inflection of the heroic,
always keeping in mind connections between the rich literature of Anglo-Saxon England
and later traditions.
Teaching methods: 10 x 2 hours seminars plus directed study (associated reading and
consultation hours).
The essay assigned for this course is due Friday January 10. Titles will be issued in the
week of November 25.
Course C: EN 6051: Middle English Literature, 1200-1550
10 credits, Teaching period 2.
This module examines a fascinating period of change – linguistic, cultural, and literary -
in English writing in England, Scotland, and Ireland. The course explores the generic and
stylistic richness of the period, covering the development and diffusion of lyric poetry,
romance, visionary texts, satire, drama, and writing for women, with close attention to
how this writing engages with problems of society, power, identity, and belief in the later
Middle Ages.
Teaching methods: 10 x 2 hours seminars plus directed study (associated reading and
consultation hours).
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The essay assigned for this course is due Monday April 7. Titles will be issued in the
week of March 4.
Course D: EN 6054: Renaissance Literature from c. 1550
10 credits, Teaching period 2.
This module explores a range of texts in different forms - epic, satire, drama, romance
and others - as well as stimulating cultural contexts. The ability of the period‟s writers to
reinvent and vivify older textual traditions is a central, though not exclusive, interest.
Overall, the module reveals the extraordinary richness of the cultural production of the
early modern period in both England and Ireland.
Teaching methods: 10 x 2 hours seminars plus directed study (associated reading and
consultation hours).
The essay assigned for this course is due Wednesday April 7. Titles will be issued in the
week of March 4.
Course E: EN 6055: Texts and Transformations: Medieval to Renaissance
10 credits, Teaching period 1.
(Please note students may take module B, described above, in lieu of this module).
This module will interrogate the traditional division between the Middle Ages and
Renaissance, by examining the development of a literary, textual, and generic tradition
over the two periods. Case studies will vary from year to year, and may include topics
such as: the post-reformation reception of the Piers Plowman tradition; the appropriation
of medieval chronicle writing and romance in Renaissance drama; and classical traditions
in English writing from the Middle Ages to Renaissance.
Teaching methods: 10 x 2 hours seminars plus directed study (associated reading and
consultation hours).
The essay assigned for this course is due Friday January 10. Titles will be issued in the
week of November 25.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the course coordinator, Dr Andrew King ([email protected])
WHERE NEXT?
We are available to give general advice on postgraduate issues, and also to discuss any plans for doctoral study. Please see individual staff during office hours, or e-mail to make an appointment.
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Seminar Schedule
TP 1 Course A (Book History) - Thursday 2-4pm, Perrott Avenue 3 Seminar room
Course B (Old English) – Tuesday, 2-4, Aras na Laoi G32 Course E (Transformations) - Wednesday, 1-3 pm, ORB 165 TP 2 Course C (Middle English) – Wednesday, 4-6 pm, ORB 165 Course D (Renaissance English) – Thursday 2-4pm, Perrott Avenue 3 Seminar room (Occasionally the time or venue of a seminar will be different in a particular week. Those changes are marked in the syllabus below, so please keep a careful eye on this!) The seminars for the taught course in Texts and Contexts consist of two two-hour sessions per week. Each meeting will concentrate both on close reading of primary texts and on the contextual element of the course, considering authors and texts along with key secondary criticism concerning matters of genre, history, politics, culture, and art. We will examine some of the major literary influences on medieval and Renaissance texts, and take account of medieval and Renaissance theories of authorship and translation, as well as modern theoretical approaches to pre-modern texts. Worksheets outlining preparatory reading, issues for discussion, and topics for presentation will be provided for these sessions a week in advance. Key TB Dr Thomas Birkett * KG Dr Katie Garner AK Dr Andrew King * CL Dr Colin Lahive KM Dr Kirsty March OM Dr Orla Murphy KR Dr Kenneth Rooney * ES Dr Edel Semple *
* Indicates a staff member available for thesis supervision
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Course Team and Research Interests Dr Thomas Birkett (lecturer): [email protected] Old English; Old Norse; runology; palaeography; theories of writing and textuality; riddles; antiquarianism and the post-medieval reception of Old English and Old Norse literature and culture. Dr Katie Garner (IRC postdoctoral fellow) Medieval and Arthurian romance. The romantic reception of Arthurian romance. Dr Andrew King (lecturer): [email protected] ORB 172 (COURSE CO-ORDINATOR) Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, romance, medieval and early modern drama; the early modern response to medieval texts and culture; memory and the sense of place. Dr Colin Lahive Milton; Seventeenth-century literature and political culture; Seventeenth-century romance, and early modern receptions and uses of medieval romance; Caroline court culture; Reading and epistolary networks, discourse communities, and print in early modern Ireland. Dr Kirsty March [email protected] The transmission and dissemination of texts from the eighth and early ninth century; Anglo-Saxon prayer books; affective piety in Old and early Middle English texts. Dr Orla Murphy (lecturer): [email protected] ORB ORB 1.42 Anglo-Saxon Literature; epigraphy, paleography, codicology; knowledge design; medieval imaginations: writing, art, sculpture, their contexts, their digital conservation, preservation, and transmission. Dr Kenneth Rooney (lecturer): [email protected] ORB 171 Death and eschatology in later medieval writing; Chaucer; the Gawain-poet; Middle English romance and hagiography; visionary literature; secular and devotional lyric poetry to the renaissance; the interaction of writing and iconography in earlier literature Dr Edel Semple (lecturer): ([email protected]) ORB 184 Shakespeare, Middleton and Jonson; adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare; gender, sexuality, and the body; the early modern city; transgression and criminality; „cheap print‟, in particular the work of John Taylor, the Water-poet.
SOURCES OF HELP
We are available to discuss any aspect of the course and to give general advice on postgraduate issues. Please see individual staff during office hours, or e-mail to make an appointment.
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TERM 1 Week Beginning
Course B: Old English Tuesday 2-4
Course A: Book History Thurs 2-4
Course E: Transformations Wed 1-3
16 SEPT INTRODUCTORY MEETING: ORB 1.85, Tuesday, September 17th, 2-3pm 23 SEPT I
Towards the Vernacular Cædmon’s Hymn; oral poetry; Anglo-Saxon runic inscriptions [TB]
Elements of the Book 1:
materials, layout, binding, workshop on folding, quires, book production [TB]
Epic, Romance, and romance: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Books 1 & 2 Boece
The European Troy and Troilus traditions [AK]
30 SEPT II
Early authors
Cynewulf‟s signatures; Alfred the Great‟s Preface to Pastoral Care; Ælfric‟s Prefaces [TB]
Elements of the Book 2:
Scripts: bookhands and cursives, workshop on interpretation and transcription [TB]
Epics of Fate: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde,
Book 3 [AK]
7 OCT III
Space and Place
Extracts from The OE Bede; The Voyage of Othere & Wulfstan in the OE Orosius [TB]
Manuscripts and Palaeography
Making Books Textual Transmission Theories of textual editing [OM]
WED 4-6 Epics of Fate:
Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Books 4 & 5 [AK]
14 OCT IV
Riddles and revelation
Selected riddles, The OE Rune Poem [TB]
Textuality and the digital edition:
McGann: Marking Texts of ManyDimensions (2004). [OM]
Love and death: Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid [KR]
21 OCT V
Heroic Revisioning
The Battle of Maldon The Dream of the Rood The Wanderer [TB]
The Manuscript Contexts of Texts:
Havelok the Dane - romance, history, or saint‟s life? The MS context: Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 [AK]
Heroism re-imagined:
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida [ES]
28 OCT READING WEEK
NOV 4 VI
Beowulf: Source and Analogue The Finnsburh Fragment; The Sigurd Legend; extracts from Grettis saga [TB]
Devoted readers:
Medieval books of hours. The Religious poems of Harley 2253 [KR]
Medieval history and the Renaissance stage
Shakespeare, Henry IV part 1, Holinshed & Hall [ES]
NOV 11 VII
Early Romance
Apollonius of Tyre [TB]
Printing the author: John
Taylor, the Water Poet, Collected Works (1630) [ES]
Transforming Chaucer:
Spenser‟s completion of The Squire‟s Tale [AK]
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NOV 18 VIII
The Word Exchange The reception of Old English poetry; translation theory; legacies [TB]
Inventing (staging) the author:
Theatrical contexts for collaboration and play authorship - Jonson‟s First Folio and other texts [ES]
‘Mouldy-Tale’ Romance?:
Shakespeare and Wilkins, Pericles, Prince of Tyre [ES]
NOV 25 IX
Writing for women in the Middle Ages. The beginnings of Middle English Ancrene Wisse and related texts [KM]
Texts and theories:
The Medieval commentary tradition. Medieval writers on scripture and the classics. [KR
Reformation and counter-reformations: Transforming authority [AK]
Essays in courses A, B, & E assigned.
DEC 2 X
Oral Presentations of Manuscript/Book history topic
Week of December 9: STUDY/REVIEW WEEK
TERM 2
COURSE C (MIDDLE ENGLISH)
Wed 4-6 COURSE D (RENAISSANCE ENGLISH)
Thurs 2-4 7 Jan No classes
14 Jan I
Women and Writing: Love Hurts
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Love (1374) [KR]
Writing by Women (about Women):
Lady Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam [ES]
21 Jan II
A Scandalous Woman: The Book of Margery Kempe (extracts) [KR]
Female poets: To be a (wo)man in print:
Behn and other writers [ES]
28 Jan III
The Loves of Lancelot: Medieval to Romantic
Malory, „The Tale of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere‟ in Le Morte Darthur, Louisa Stuart Costello, „The Funeral Boat‟ (1829), and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, „A Legend of Tintagel Castle‟ (1832) [KG]
Spenser: Defining this ‘little world of man’ The Faerie Queene, Book II, Proem & cantos i-iii [AK]
4 Feb IV
Politics, Satire, and History:
Grave Concerns – The Awntyrs of Arthure; Winnere and Wastour [KR]
Spenser: Temperance and the Humanist context
FQ, II.iv-vi Sidney, Defence of Poetry [AK]
11 Feb V
Chaucerian satire:
The Friar and Summoner and their tales from The Canterbury Tales
[KR]
Spenser: Temperance and worldly riches
FQ, II.vii-ix More, Utopia
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[AK]
Week of 18 February: READING WEEK
25 Feb VI
The beginnings of Anglo-Irish writing - Satire and morality in the Kildare poems: The Land of Cockayne , Piers of Bermingham and other texts
[KR]
Spenser: Temperance and sexual appetite
FQ, II.x-xii Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, Book IV [AK]
4 Mar VII
Moral topographies and medieval Ireland
Middle English versions of St Patrick’s Purgatory; and The Vision of Tundale (extracts) [KR]
Anxiety and career development in Milton’s shorter poems:
Sonnet VII ('How soon hath time') 'Lycidas' Sonnet XVI ('When I consider how my light is spent') [CL]
11 March VIII
Wish-fulfilment and revelation:
The Gawain-poet: Pearl [KR]
The Secret Life of Rogues...Uncovered: Writings
of Greene, Dekker, et al. including Lantern and Candelight, A Notable Discovery of Cozenage (1591) [ES]
18 March IX
A Dance to the Music of Time:
Medieval Poetry and Music [KR]
Desire, disorder, and death: Middleton‟s Women Beware Women (c.1621) [ES]
Essays in courses C & D assigned.
Week of 25 March: Oral Presentations of ePortfolio Research Journal Material
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Marking Scale and Assessment Marking Scale First Honours: 70+ Second Honours grade 1: 60-69 Second Honours grade 2: 50-50 Pass: 40-59 Submission of Written Work All written work must be typed (word-processed), and presented double-spaced with adequate margins for comment. All essays and dissertations must be provided with references (footnotes, endnotes, or other referencing system) in accordance with the MLA Handbook (see Research Skills Course), and a complete, and correctly formatted bibliography. Plagiarism Plagiarised work will be treated under the rules of the Department of English, and UCC‟s regulations. Plagiarism is likely to result in the mark of „0‟ and failure of the whole course. Please be especially careful in using sources from the internet. If you are unsure about what constitutes plagiarism, the rules for referencing, or which referencing system to use, please consult us.
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Preliminary Reading
1. Palaeography and Language
Dennis Freeborn, From Old English to Standard English (Houndmills, 1992). Survey of
language change using textual evidence.
Malcolm Parkes, Pause and Effect: Punctuation in the West (Aldershot, 1992). Seminal,
illuminating study of punctuation and, by extension, the reading and interpretation of
manuscripts.
Jane Roberts, Guide to Scripts used in English Writings up to 1500 (London, 2005).
Indispensable survey, which also acts as a “hands-on” literary history of English writing.
2. Old English (c. 650-1200)
Primary Materials
Many of the poems and shorter prose works are reproduced in parallel OE and MnE in
Treharne, ed., Old and Middle English: An Anthology. 3rd ed. (Blackwell, 2010). Please
purchase this book.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The edition by Swanton (2000) includes all manuscript versions.
Extracts can be found in Treharne‟s anthology.
Beowulf. There are numerous editions, but Fulk‟s The Beowulf Manuscript (Harvard, 2010)
has the advantage of including other texts in the MS, as well as the Finnsburh Fragment.
The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, 2 vols, ed. Bernard J. Muir (Exeter, 1994) Most
poems included in Treharne‟s anthology.
The Old English Orosius, ed. Bately (EETS, 1980). Extracts in translation will be provided.
The Old English Bede. Miller‟s EETS edition is still the standard edition of the OE text. The
full translation can be found at http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Bede_Miller.pdf
The Old English Rune Poem. A copy of this short poem will be provided in class, but
Halsall‟s edition (Toronto, 1982) includes an interesting discussion of the tradition.
The Saga of Grettir the Strong, trans. Bernard Scudder (London: Penguin, 2005)
Secondary Sources
Campbell, John and Wormald, eds. The Anglo-Saxons (Penguin, 1991)
Donoghue, Daniel, Old English Literature: A Short Introduction (Blackwell, 2004)
Frantzen, Allan J., Desire for Origins (Rutgers UP: 1990)
Fulk, R. D. and C. M. Cain, A History of Old English Literature (Blackwell, 2003)
Godden, Malcolm and Michael Lapidge, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Old English
Literature (CUP, 1991)
Hunter Blair, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England. 3rd ed. (CUP, 2003)
Lapidge, Blair, Keynes and Scragg, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England
(Blackwell, 2000)
Liuzza, R.M., ed. Old English Literature: Critical Essays (Yale UP, 2002)
O'Brien O'Keefe, Katherine, ed. Reading Old English Texts (Cambridge: CUP, 1997)
and Visible Song: Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse (CUP, 1990)
Page, R. I. An Introduction to English Runes. 2nd ed. (London: Boydell Press, 2006)
Pulsiano, Phillip and Elaine Treharne, eds. A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature
(Blackwell, 2001) Stanley, E.G., ed. Continuations and Beginnings: Studies in Old English Literature (Nelson,
1966)
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Language Aids
Baker, Introduction to Old English (Blackwell, 2003) with an online component and reader at
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/OEA/
Mitchell and Robinson, A Guide to Old English. 7th ed. (Oxford, 2007)
Bosworth and Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Available online at
http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/bosworth.htm
3. Middle English (c. 1200-1500)
Primary materials in English and other languages
- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy - translations in Penguin, Loeb, or Oxford
World's Classics. Without doubt, the most influential book for the middle ages, written by
Boethius in prison, awaiting execution, in the 6th century. Indispensable for Chaucer (who
translated it).
- Chretien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances - translation in Everyman series. Seminal 12th-
century development of Arthurian world and romance form.
- Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, The Romance of the Rose. Seminal 12th-century
work for developing ideas of love-psychology and allegorical form. There‟s a handy
translation by Frances Horgan for World‟s Classics.
Dante, The Divine Comedy. The summation of medieval ideas of this life and the next. Any
translation, but Sinclair‟s parallel Italian English text (OUP) most useful
Boccaccio, The Decameron. A 14th-century story-collection, arguably important for
Chaucer. Any translation.
The Lais of Marie de France, ed. & Trans G. Burgess. Penguin. Influential medieval tales of
enchantment.
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose. Wonderful recreation, in a monastic whodunit, of the
patterns of thought of medieval philosophy and religion.
Secondary Sources Guides to Middle English writing
David Wallace, ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval Literature (CUP, 1999).
Brown, ed. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture (Blackwell, 2006)
Scanlon, Larry, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature (CUP, 2009)
All three collections have useful essays on historical contexts, language, genres, texts and
authors.
Other criticism / history
Elizabeth Archibald and A.S.G. Edwards, eds, A Companion to Malory (Cambridge: D.S.
Brewer, 1996) J. A. W. Bennett, Middle English Literature (Oxford, 1983)
R. Bartlett, The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350
(Harmondsworth, 1993)
Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars. Yale, 1992. Essential on the character of medieval
religion and its implications for art, writing and imagination.
D. MacCulloch. Reformation: Europe’s House Divided (Allen Lane, 2004). Can be read as a
cultural history of Europe in the late Middle ages as well as an account of the transition to
Renaissance. See chapters „The Old Church‟ and part III „Patterns of Life‟.
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Helen Cooper, The Structure of the Canterbury Tales (London, 1983), pp. 91-120
C. Dinshaw, Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics (Madison, 1989)
S. Knight, Chaucer (Oxford, 1988), pp. 1-6, and 66-157
C. S. Lewis, The Discarded Image - on medieval cosmography, or their sense of the world
and universe.
Ad Putter and Elizabeth Edwards, eds, The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian
Legend (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) T. Shippey, The Road to Middle Earth (Unwin, 1982). As much a potted history of the study
of medieval language and literature as of Tolkien‟s sources.
Lori J. Walters, ed., Lancelot and Guinevere: A Casebook (New York: Garland, 2002)
Language:
Burrow & Turville-Petre, ed., A Book of Middle English (Blackwell 1996)
METRO (Middle English Teaching Resources Online). Useful language resource from
Harvard
http://metro.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do
4. Renaissance and Early Modern Writing (c. 1500-1670)
Primary materials
More, Utopia, trans R. Robinson in Three Early Modern Utopias: Sir Thomas More's
‘Utopia’, Francis Bacon's ‘New Atlantis’, Henry Neville's ‘Isle of Pines’ , ed S. Bruce
(Oxford, 1999)
Machiavelli, The Prince
[Recommended translations – Penguin, Oxford World‟s Classics, Cambridge Texts in the
History of Political Thought]
Virgil, The Aeneid [Recommended translations – Penguin, Oxford World‟s Classics, Loeb]
Secondary Sources:
David Norbrook, Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance, revised edition (Oxford,
2002) [Introduction, chapter on More, postscript]
J.R. Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (1994, repr 2005)
Cerasano, S.P. and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts
and Documents. London: Routledge, 1996.
Dutton, Richard, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009.
Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare's London. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
Hattaway, Michael. A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture.
Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Mehl, Dieter, Angela Stock, and Anne-Julia Zwierlein, eds. Plotting Early Modern
London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate,
2004.
Shapiro, James. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. London: Faber and
Faber, 2005.
RECOMMENDED EDITIONS OF SET TEXTS
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Ancrene Wisse (excerpts), ed. and tr. B Millet and J. Wogan-Browne, in Medieval English Prose for Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Complete text, ed. R. Hasenfratz (TEAMS, 2000) at http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/awintro.htm -- trans. B. Millet, Exeter, 2009. The Awntyrs off Arthure, ed. T. Hahn. Kalamazoo: TEAMS, 1995 http://lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/teams/awnintro.htm Barratt, Alexandra, ed. Women’s Writing in Middle English. London: Longman, 1992. Cary, Elizabeth. The Tragedy of Mariam. Ed. Karen Britland. London: Methuen, 2010. – Available in the campus bookshop. (This play is also available online.) Fulk, R. D. ed and tr. The Beowulf Manuscript. Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press, 2010. Henryson, Robert. Orpheus and Eurydice. Ed. R. Kindrick. Kalamazoo: TEAMS, 1997. http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/orphint.htm Julian of Norwich, Shewings, ed. G. R. Cramptoun. Kalamazoo: TEAMS, 1994. Miller, T., ed. and tr. The Old English Version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Translation available online - http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Bede_Miller.pdf Middleton, Thomas. “A Mad World My Masters”. A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics). Ed. Michael Taylor. Oxford: OUP, 2009. – Available in the campus bookshop. (This play is also available on EEBO and on LION, and in Thomas Middleton: Collected Works.) Sir Thomas Malory, „The Tale of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere‟ in Le Morte Darthur ed. Helen Cooper (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Norbrook, David, ed. The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 1509-1659. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992. Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, ed. Kenneth Muir. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Spenser, Edmund, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1999. Spenser, Edmund, The Faerie Queene, ed. A. C. Hamilton et al. 2nd ed. Harlow: Longman, 2001. Spenser, Edmund, A View of the Present State of Ireland - http://uoregon.edu/~rbear/veue1.html Swanton, Michael, ed and tr. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. London: Phoenix, 2000. Treharne, E., ed. Old and Middle English c. 890-c.1400: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Munday, Antony, Henry Chettle, William Shakespeare et al. Sir Thomas More. Ed. Vittorio Gabrieli and Giorgio Melchiori. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1990. – Available in the campus bookshop. Shakespeare, William. Pericles. Ed. Suzanne Gossett. London: Arden, 2004. – Available in the campus bookshop. Shakespeare, William. “Troilus and Cressida”. The Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. 2nd ed. New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2005. – Available in the campus bookshop. Shakespeare, William. “1 Henry IV.” The Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. 2nd ed. New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2005. – Available in the campus bookshop. The Vision of Tundale, ed. E. Foster. Kalamazoo: TEAMS, 2004. http://lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/teams/vtint.htm Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn et al. eds., The Idea of the Vernacular. Exeter: Exeter UP, 1999. Wynnere and Wastoure. TEAMS Middle English Texts: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/ginwin.htm
