English Department - Renaissance Literature
Reading List 2011-2012 – Renaissance Literature
John Skelton
The Bowge of Court
In The Anchor Anthology of Sixteenth Century Verse. Ed. Richard S. Sylvester. Anchor/Doubleday, 1974.*
George Gascoigne
“The Lullabie of a Lover”
“Gascoignes Woodmanship”
In The Anchor Anthology of Sixteenth Century Verse. Ed. Richard S. Sylvester. Anchor/Doubleday, 1974.*
Elizabeth Cary
The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry
In The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry. Ed. Barry Weller and
Margaret W. Ferguson. Berkeley: U of California P, 1994.*
Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene, Book I
William Shakespeare
The Winter’s Tale
The Rape of Lucrece
In The Norton Shakespeare, 2nd ed. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al.*
John Donne
“A Lame Beggar”
“A Selfe Accuser”
“Satire 4"
Holy Sonnets: “As due by many titles . . .” and “Oh my blacke Soule!”
In The Complete Poems, ed. John T. Shawcross.*
Ben Jonson
The Masque of Blackness
From the Epigrams:
“To John Donne”
“On Lucy, Countess of Bedford”
“To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne’s Satires”
John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi
George Herbert
“Redemption”
“Denial”
John Milton
Paradise Lost, Books 1-3
Andrew Marvell
“The Coronet”
“A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body”
“The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers”
Secondary Works
John T. Shawcross, Intentionality and the New Traditionalism (Pennsylvania State UP, 1991). Chapters 1 and 2 (pp. 1-35).*
Stanley Fish, “Authors-Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same,” Representations 7 (1984): 26-58. Available in JStor.
Martine Van Elk, “"Our praises are out wages": Courtly exchange, social mobility, and female speech in The Winter's Tale,” Philological Quarterly 79.4 (2000): 429-57. Available in ProQuest.
*On reserve in Penrose Library.
All primary texts not designated as on reserve may be found in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th ed., Vol. 1 (B).
