Guided Elective: pre-1700

Instructor: Leah Whittington Thursday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Barker 018 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site William Shakespeare drew on texts from around the world when he wrote plays for the London theater he named “The Globe.” Since...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey TBD | Location: TBA This course focuses on Milton’s most famous work, Paradise Lost, the greatest long poem in English and the only successful classical epic in the modern world. Milton went totally blind in his forties and...

Instructor: Daniel Donoghue TBD | Location: TBD Building on the basic grammar and translation skills learned in English 102, this course introduces students to Old English literature in its most immediate context: the manuscripts that preserve the...

Instructor: Daniel Donoghue Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Bad puns. Blasphemy. Codpieces. Corpse humor. Cougars. Cuckolds. Fart jokes. Dominant ladies. Funny drunks. Hypocrites. Incredible sex. Over-clever...

Instructor: Alan Niles Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: Sever 206 This course is an introduction to the different voices, cultures, and traditions that made the first 1000 years of English literature, from Beowulf to Aphra Behn. We will study...