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ENGL 3015

Chaucer and His Contemporaries

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

2021

Topics

  • Introduction to course
  • introduction to Chaucer and the medieval period
  • Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls
  • from Troilus and Criseyde
  • Chaucer, from Canterbury Tales, General Prologue
  • Miller’s Prologue and Tale
  • Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
  • Franklin’s Prologue and Tale
  • Julian of Norwich, from Revelations of Divine Love
  • Hoccleve, from The Regiment of Princes
  • Lydgate, from Danse Macabre
  • Kempe, from The Book of Margery Kempe
  • Hawes, from The Pastime
  • Dunbar, “Timor Mortis,” “Meditation”
  • Douglas, from Aeneid
  • last class

Readings

  • Required: Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology, ed. Derek Pearsall (Blackwell, 1999)
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