EK1, PLAN RADA

        Week 1 

Monday 4/10 – Intro; Lecture – AS Period, Heroic Poetry, Beowulf, AS Elegies, Religious poetry

        Week 2 

Monday 11/10  – Mediaeval Drama (Mysteries & Moralities) – online discussion

Thursday 14/10 & Friday 15/10 – Beowulf – excerpts, 'The Wife’s Lament' – in class discussion

Week 3 

Monday 18/10 – Middle English Period, Romances, Alliterative Revival, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Ballads – online discussion

Thursday 21/10 & Friday 22/10 – Sir Gawain – excerpts, 'The Wife of Usher’s Well' – in class discussion

Week 4 

Monday 25/10 – Chaucer & The Canterbury Tales; Malory – online discussion

Thursday 28/10 & Friday 29/10 – The Canterbury Tales – excerpts from the General Prologue – in class discussion

Week 5 

Monday 1/11 – Establishment of Theatres, Early Renaissance Drama, University Wits, Marlowe – online discussion

Thursday 4/11  & Friday 5/11 – Dr Faustus – excerpts – in class discussion

Week 6 

Monday 8/11 – Sonnet, English sonneteers – online discussion

Thursday 11/11 & Friday 12/11 – Sonnets – in class discussion

Week 7 

Monday 15/11 – Comedy and Tragedy, plots and characters; early comedies and tragedies in English; Revenge tragedy – online discussion

Thursday 18/11 & Friday 19/11 – The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet – excerpts – in class discussion

Week 8 

Monday 22/11 – WS – life, poetry, history plays, tragedies, Roman tragedies – online discussion

Thursday 25/11 & Friday 26/11 – Richard III, Macbeth – excerpts – in class discussion

Week 9 

Monday 29/11 – WS – comedies, Problem plays, Romances – online discussion

Thursday 2/12 & Friday 3/12 – The Duchess of Malfi – excerpts – in class discussion

Week 10 

Monday 6/12 – Post-Shakespearean drama, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Theatre closure – online discussion 

Thursday 9/12 & Friday 10/12 – The Merchant of Venice, Volpone – excerpts – in class discussion

Week 11 

Monday 13/12 – Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry, Milton, Paradise Lost – online discussion

Thursday 16/12 & Friday 17/12 – 'The Flea', 'To his Coy Mistress', Paradise Lost – excerpts – in class discussion

Week 12 

Monday 20/12 – Q & A - online discussion