Elizabeth H. Hageman
English 964, Autumn, 1999
University of New Hampshire
ehageman@csunix.unh.edu
August 31: Introduction to the Seminar and to Renaissance Women Online http://www.wwp.brown.edu
September 7: Aemelia Lanyer's "The Description of Cooke-Ham," Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst," and the marriage ceremony from the Book of Common Prayer, 1559. (All students will write for today.)
September 14: Arden of Feversham and Holinshed's account of the murder reprinted in the White edition of the play (Group A writes for today).
Recommended:
Catherine Belsey, "Alice Arden's Crime: Arden of Faversham (c. 1590)," in Staging the Renaissance, ed. Kastan and Stallybrass (New York and London: Routledge, 1991).
Jean Howard, "Women as Spectators, Spectacles, and Paying Customers," in Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama, ed. Cerasano and Wynne-Davies (1998).
Lena Cowen Orlin. Elizabethan Households: An Anthology (Washington D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1995).
______. Private Matters and Public Cultures in Post-Reformation England (Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 1994).
September 21: Poems from Tottel's Miscellany and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Group B writes for today)
Recommended:
Peter Erickson, "The Order of the Garter, the cult of Elizabeth, and class-gender tension in The Merry Wives of Windsor," in Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology, ed. Howard and O'Connor (New York and London: Routledge, 1987).
Richard Helgerson, "The Buck Basket, the Witch, and the Queen of Fairies: The Women's World of Shakespeare's Windsor," in Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, ed. Fumerton and Hunt.
Leah Marcus, "Purity and Danger in the Modern Edition: The Merry Wives of Windsor," in Unediting the Renaissance.
Jeanne Addison Roberts, Shakespeare's English Play: The Merry Wives of Windsor in Context (Lincoln, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1979).
September 28: Poetry and Portraits
Sir Walter Ralegh, "A Vision upon this conceit of 'The Faerie Queene'"
Mary Sidney, "To Queen Elizabeth" and "A Dialogue Between Two Shepherds, Thenot and Piers, in Praise of Astrea"
Diana Primrose, "A Chain of Pearl"
Anne Bradstreet, "In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory"
Poems by Elizabeth
Portraits of Elizabeth--see especially Roy Strong. (Group A writes for today.)
Recommended:
Lena Cowen Orlin, "The Fictional Families of Elizabeth I" in Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women, ed. Levin and Sullivan.
October 5: Speeches by Elizabeth and The Law of True Monarchy by James I of Scotland. (Group B writes for today.)
Recommended:
Elizabeth Cropper, "The Beauty of Women: Problems in the Rhetoric of Renaissance Portraiture" in Rewriting the Renaissance, ed. Fergusson, et. al.
Jonathan Goldberg, "Fatherly Authority: The Politics of Stuart Family Images," in Rewriting the Renaissance, ed. Ferguson, et. al.
Frances Teague, "Queen Elizabeth in Her Speeches," in Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private in the English Renaissance, ed. Cerasano and Wynne- Davies.
October 12: The Letters of Arbella Stuart, ed. Sara Jayne Steen (Group A writes for today)
October 19: Excerpts from Ralegh's The Discovery of Guiana, excerpt from Leo Affricanus's Geographical Historie of Africa, and Shakepeare's Othello. (Group B writes for today.)
Recommended:
Jonathan Burton, "'A most wily bird': Leo Africanus, Othello and the trafficking in difference," in Post-Colonialist Shakespeares
October 26: No class; Ms. Hageman will be away this week
November 2: Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam; topics for long paper due.
Recommended:
Dympna Callaghan, "Re-reading Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedie of Mariam, Faire Queene of Jewry, in Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period, ed. Hendricks and Parker.
Margaret W. Ferguson, "The Spectre of Resistance: The Tragedy of Mariam (1613)," in Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama, ed. Cerasano and Wynne-Davies.
November 9: Anne Askew's Examinations; Maurice Howard, The Tudor Image; and Sir Philip Sidney's letter urging Elizabeth not to marry Alencon (xeroxed)
Recommended:
Elizabeth Mazzola, "Anne Askew's Examinations and Renaissance Self-Incrimination," in Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women, ed. Levin and Sullivan.
November 16: Anne Dowriche's The French History and selections from Mary Sidney's translations of the Psalms.
Recommended:
Suzanne Trill, "Sixteen-century women's writing: Mary Sidney's Psalmes and the 'femininity' of translation," in Writing and the English Renaissance, ed. Zunder and Trill.
November 23: No Class--5 pages of draft of your long paper are due today. To these pages, please append a Works Cited sheet including all of the items cited in the 5 pages you have turned in. All notes and bibliography items should follow MLA format.
November 30: Spenser's "Letter to Ralegh" and Book I of The Faerie Queene
Recommended:
David Norbrook, "The Faerie Queene" and Elizabethan Politics" in Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance.
December 7: Summing up: Final Papers due today