Title: THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: 1500-1603

PRQ:

This course studies literature from the Tudor Period (1485-1609) excluding Shakespeare’s plays and includes authors like Thomas More, Christopher Marlow, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare.  This course will approach 16^th-century literature as fantasy literature, that is, that during this period writers created imaginary worlds, imaginary people, and imaginary relationships which still exist as models that people have tried to make real.

There will be a brief quiz on reading assignments, a research paper, and a final exam.

The Renaissance in England, (course packet selections) Rollins and Baker.; Utopia, Thomas More (Yale paperback ed. by Clarence H. Miller).; The Faerie Queene, Book VI, Edmund Spenser.