Renaissance Exam Reading List

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1 1 Renaissance Exam Reading List From the list below, please choose any 60 to 67 texts from all fields included here (don t do only poetry or only drama, for example). Your 60 to 67 choices must include at least ten Shakespeare plays and all of either Milton or Spenser on the list. You can include works you studied in seminars, but do not make your list up wholly of works that are thus familiar to you, and be sure to spread your work across the whole span of the period ( ). The remaining 30 to 33 texts can be your choice, tailored to your specific interests. Renaissance Drama 1. Sackville and Norton, Gorboduc 2. Lyly, Gallathea 3. Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy 4. Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, 1 and 2 The Jew of Malta Doctor Faustus Edward II 5. Anon., Arden of Faversham 6. Dekker, The Shoemaker s Holiday 7. Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness Fair Maid of the West 8. Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle 9. Middleton, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Michaelmas Term 10. Middleton and Dekker, The Roaring Girl 11. Middleton and Rowley, The Changeling 13. Webster, The White Devil The Duchess of Malfi 14. Tourneur (? Middleton?), The Revenger s Tragedy 15. Ford, Perkin Warbeck

2 2 Tis Pity She s a Whore 16. Cary, Tragedy of Mariam 17. Jonson, Volpone The Alchemist Bartholomew Fair Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue The Masque of Blacknesse/The Masque of Beautie 18. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night s Dream As You Like It Twelfth Night Henry V Richard III 1&2 Henry IV Hamlet Othello King Lear The Tempest The Winter s Tale Macbeth Richard II Antony and Cleopatra Pericles Romeo and Juliet Cymbeline The Taming of the Shrew Love s Labor s Lost Merchant of Venice (at least ten of these) 19. Milton, Comus 20. Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts Epic 21. Spenser, The Faerie Queene 22. Milton, Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Romance

3 3 22. Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke s Arcadia 23. Wroth, The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery s Urania 24. Sir John Harington, trans., Orlando Furioso Poetry 25. Marlowe, Hero and Leander All Ovid s Elegies The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 26. Sidney, Astrophel and Stella 27. Shakespeare, Sonnets Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece 28. Spenser, Amoretti The Shepheardes Calender 29. Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 30. Jonson, On Lucy, Countess of Bedford, Inviting a Friend to Supper, On Something, that Walks Somewhere, On My First Son, On My First Daughter, To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison, To Penshurst, To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, William Shakespeare, Song: To Celia, Ode: To Himself, Why I Write Not of Love, On the Famous Voyage," "Epitaph on S.P. a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel," "A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces," "My Picture Left in Scotland" 31. Drayton, Ode: To the Virginian Voyage, Idea 1: Like an adventurous seafarer am I, Idea 6: How many paltry, foolish, painted things, Idea 61: Since there s no help, come let us kiss and part 32. Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum To Cookeham 33. Donne, Songs and Sonets Epigrams (incl. Sapho to Philaenis ) Holy Sonnets 34. Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, The Dolefull Lay of Clorinda, A Dialogue between Two Shepherds, Thenot and Piers, in Praise of Astraea, To the Angell Spirit of the most excellent Sir Philip Sidney

4 4 35. Wyatt, The long love that in my heart doth harbor, Whoso list to hunt, Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever, Madame, withouten many words, What vaileth truth?, I find no peace, and all my war is done, They flee from me Surrey, Aeneid Book 4 Skelton, Speke, Parrot, Why Come Ye Not to Court? Lullay, lullay, lyke a child, Go, piteous heart. Why were ye, Calliope, embr\awdered with letters of gold? 36. Milton, At a Vacation Exercise in the College, On the Morning of Christ s Nativity, L Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, At a Solemn Music, Lycidas, Samson Agonistes 37. Herbert, The Temple 38. Marvell, Bermudas, An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell s Return From Ireland, The Garden, Upon Appleton House, The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn, The Mower s Song, The Definition of Love, A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body, A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure, Eyes and Tears, Damon the Mower, The Mower, against Gardens, To His Coy Mistress 39. Hutchinson, Order and Disorder 40. Golding, trans., Metamorphoses 41. Barnabe Barnes, Pathenophil and Parthenope 1-10 Prose 42. Sidney, Defense of Poesy 43. Hoby, trans., The Book of the Courtier 44. More, Utopia History of King Richard III 45. Hobbes, Leviathan 46. Elyot, The Book Named the Governor 47. Florio, trans., Montaigne s Essays 48. Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller Pierce Pennilesse, His Supplication to the Divell

5 5 49. Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons 50. Bacon, Essays 51. Cavendish, The Blazing-World 52. Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial 53. Robert Greene, Pandosto 54. Erasmus, Praise of Folly 55. Milton, Areopagitica Of Education Secondary Material 56. Barber, C. L., Shakespeare s Festive Comedy (Princeton, 1959) 57. Barkan, Leonard. The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism (New Haven, 1986) 58. Belsey, Cartherine. The Subject of Tragedy (London, 1985) 59. Berger, Jr., Harry. Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare (Stanford, 1997) 60. Bevington, David. From Mankind to Marlowe (Cambridge, Mass., 1962). 61. Biester, James. Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in English Renaissance Poetry (Cornell, 1997) 62. Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry ( Oxford, 1973) 63. Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy (Rpt,. 1960) 64. Bristol, Michael. Carnival and Theatre: Plebeian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England (London, 1985) 65. Bruster, Douglas. Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1992) 66. Colie, Rosalie. The Resources of Kind: Genre Theory in the Renaissance, ed. Lewalski (Berkeley, 1973) 67. Danson, Lawrence. Shakespeare s Dramatic Genres (Oxford, 2000) 68. Dubrow, Heather. Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and its Counterdiscourses (Cornell, 1995) 69. Empson, William. Milton's God (London, 1961)

6 6 70. Fletcher, Angus. The Prophetic Moment: An Essay on Spenser (Chicago, 1971) 71. Goldberg, Jonathan. James I and the Politics of Literature (Baltimore, 1983) Writing Matter: from the hands of the English Renaissance (Stanford, 1990) 73. Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: from More to Shakespeare (Chicago, 1980) Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (Chicago, 1988) 75. Greene, Thomas. The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry (New Haven, 1982) 76. Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage,. 3 rd. ed. (Cambridge, 1992) 77. Hall, Kim. Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England (Cornell, 1995) 78. Helgerson, Richard. Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (Chicago, 1992) Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton and the Literary System (Berkeley, 1983) 80. Howard, Jean. The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (Routledge, 1994) 81. Jones, Ann Rosalind. The Currency of Eros: Women s Love Lyric in Europe, (Indiana, 1990) 82. Jordan, Constance. Shakespeare s Monarchies: Ruler and Subject in the Romances (Ithaca, 1997). 83. Kahn, Coppélia. Roman Shakespeare (London, 1997) 84. Kennedy, William. The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England (Johns Hopkins, 2003) 85. Lanham, Richard. The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance (New Haven, 1976) 86. Lewalski, Barbara. Writing Women in Jacobean England (Harvard, 1993) 87. Lewis, C. S. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge, 1964) 88. Marotti, Arthur. Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Cornell, 1995) 89. Maus, Katherine Eisaman. Inwardness and theater in the English Renaissance (Chicago, 1995) 90. Miola, Robert. Shakespeare s Rome (Cambridge, 1983)

7 7 91. Orgel, Stephen. The Illusion of Power (Berkeley, 1975) 92. Parker, Patricia. Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property (London, 1987) 93. Paster, Gail Kern. The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England (Cornell, 1993) 94. Rackin, Phyllis. Stages of History: Shakespeare s English Chronicles (Ithaca, 1990) 95. Roach, Joseph. Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (Columbia, 1996) 96. Shuger, Debora. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance (Berkeley, 1990) 97. Snyder, Susan. The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare s Tragedies (Princeton, 1979) 98. Stephens, Dorothy. Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative (Cambridge, 1998) 99. Tillyard, E. M. W. The Elizabethan World Picture (New York, 1944) 100. Weimann, Robert, Trans. Schwartz, Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theatre (Baltimore, 1978) 101. Worthen, W. B. Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (Cambridge, 1997) 102. Yates, Frances. Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century (Boston, 1975)