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Registration

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Definition and general characteristics
of the Renaissance period.
Introduction to the background of the
sixteenth century: Humanism &
Reformation






Students are given an orientation to the course and the general rules of grading and attendance (5 marks for participation). They are also asked to prepare sonnets and to read them before each lecture. Further individual assignments are graded out of
(2 bonus marks ) as an encouragement to active students


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General overview of Renaissance Literature

An introduction to Elements of poetry and Figurative language.


Students are divided into groups to perform assignments and presentations throughout the term.

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Beginnings of Elizabethan poetry

The English Sonnet

Thomas Wyatt: “My galley charged with forgetfulness”

* A Quiz that evaluates the students’ knowledge of the elements of poetry and figurative language. They are encouraged to correct each other’s papers.
-The Renaissance concept of Imitation is discussed.

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Thomas Wyatt: “ Farewell Love”

-Howard, Earl of Surrey: “O Happy Dames,. .” (A brief discussion is to be done thoroughly and a short essay homework is required)

-Read and prepare
-An oral discussion compares the concepts of Love and Imitation in Wyatt’s two sonnets

*A paraphrase is marked out of 2 marks (bonus marks- best answers only).

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Sir Philip Sidney:
Astrophill and Stella “Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”

Read and prepare

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Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophill and Stella “COME, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace”
Read and prepare
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Group Presentations


* Presentations-

Students are asked to point out new ideas about the Elizabethan poetry or poets out of 5 marks.

-Exam Rules



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Mid Second Semester Holiday


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Midterm Exams – Poetry Exam

-* Out of 15 marks Exam papers are to be corrected and discussed.


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Edmund Spenser: The Fairie Queene canto I
( 1- -2-3-4 )
-Read and prepare

-The Renaissance concept of the Chain of Being is discussed

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Edmund Spenser: The Fairie Queene canto I
( 17-18-19 )
-Read and prepare
-The Renaissance concept of the Chain of Being is discussed

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The English Sonnet

William Shakespeare: Sonnets 73, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold”
-Read and prepare
* Students are encouraged to paraphrase this sonnet and compare it to Sydney’s “Loving in Truth”

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William Shakespeare: Sonnets 12, “When I do count the clock that tells the time,”
-Read and prepare
-Students are encouraged to make connections between the sonnets they are studying in detail and the overall scene of Elizabethan poetry.
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Christopher Marlowe: “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love”
-Read and prepare
Time as a theme is the subject of a comparison between the sonnets of Shakespeare and Marlow





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Time, Love, imitation as Elizabethan themes are the subject of a comparison between the sonnets of Shakespeare and Marlow, and Shakespeare’s two sonnets.

- Final Exam Rules and class inputs/outputs in an open discussion
Students are encouraged to participate in a conclusive comparison that reads the Age and connect the sonnets and the poets together.
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Final Exams