Renaissance British Literature The works which are numbered and marked with asterisks represent the core

list for which all graduate students taking the Renaissance exam are responsible. The list as a whole is a fuller list from which students may wish to supplement the core list, according to their particular interests. (1)*Sir Thomas More, Utopia Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Complete Poems Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Edmund Spenser The Shepheardes Calendar (2) *The Faerie Queene, Books 1 and 3 Epithalamion Sir Walter Ralegh The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd What is our life? Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son The Lie Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay Nature, that washed her hands in milk The Authors Epitaph, Made by Himself Sir Philip Sidney (3) *Astrophil and Stella The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia, Books I and II Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (4) *Christopher Marlowe (both) The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus The Passionate Shepherd to His Love William Shakespeare (5) *The Sonnets As You Like It (6) *Twelfth Night (7) *The Merchant of Venice (8) *Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (9) *Hamlet (10) *Othello (11) *King Lear (12) *Macbeth (13) *The Tempest Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke Amelia Lanyer Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (14) *The Description of Cook-ham

(15) John Donne, Complete Poems, including *Holy Sonnets *A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning *The Flea *The Sun Rising *The Ecstasy *The Canonization Ben Jonson The Alchemist (16) *Volpone and To Penshurst On My First Son Ode to Himself Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Francis Bacon Of Truth Of Marriage and the Single Life Of Superstition The Advancement of Learning (The Abuses of Language) John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Maryam, the Fair Queen of Jewry George Chapman, Bussy dAmbois John Ford, Tis Pity Shes a Whore Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Changeling (17)Robert Herrick, Poems, including *To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time *Corinnas Gone A-Maying *Delight in Disorder (18) George Herbert, The Temple, including *The Collar *Love III *The Pulley *The Altar *Jordan I *Jordan II (19) Andrew Marvell *To His Coy Mistress *The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn *An Horatian Ode The Mowers Song Damon the Mower The Garden The Mower Against Gardens

John Milton On the Morning of Christs Nativity LAllegro Il Penseroso (20a) *Lycidas (20b) *Paradise Lost Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline Robert Burton, Democritus Junior to the Reader (from Anatomy of Melancholy) Thomas Browne, Religio Medici Continental Backgrounds Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier Erasmus, The Praise of Folly Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will Niccol Machiavelli, The Prince Francesco Petrarca, Letter to Posterity, The Ascent of Mt. Ventoux Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man Secondary Sources Classical and Early Modern: (1) *Aristotle, Poetics (2)*Plato, The Republic (3)*John Milton, Areopagitica (4)*Sir Philip Sidney, Defense of Poesy Modern: Jean-Christophe Agnew, Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theatre in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750 (1986) Paul Alpers, ed., Elizabethan Poetry: Modern Essays in Criticism (1967) David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000) Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World (1968) Harry Berger, Second World and Green World: Studies in Renaissance Fiction-Making (1988) David Bevington, From Mankind to Marlowe: Growth and Structure in the Popular Drama of Tudor England (1962) Lynda Boose, The Family in Shakespeare Studies; or Studies in the Family of Shakespeareans; or The Politics of Politics, Renaissance Quarterly 40 (1987): 707-42 Mary Crane, Framing Authority: Sayings, Self and Society in Sixteenth-Century England (1993) Mary Crane, What Was Performance? Criticism 43 (2001): 169-87

David Daniell, Shakespeare and the Protestant Mind, Shakespeare Survey 54 (2001): 1-12 A. G. Dickens, The English Reformation (1991) Jonathan Dollimore, Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (1984) Margaret Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy Vickers, eds., Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe (1986) Stanley Fish, ed., Seventeenth-Century Prose: Modern Essays in Criticism (1971) Jonathan Goldberg, James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne, and their Contemporaries (1983) Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (1988) (5) *Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (1980) Thomas Greene, The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry (1982) Linda Gregerson, The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton and the English Protestant Epic (1995) (6) *Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 (1980) John Guy, Tudor England (1988) Michael Hattaway, Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature (2005) Richard Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (1992) Richard Helgerson, Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System (1983) Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution (1972) (7) *Christopher Hodgkins, Reforming Empire: Protestant Colonialism and Conscience in British Literature (2002). Jean Howard, The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies, English Literary Renaissance 16 (1986): 13-43 Jean Howard, Shakespeare, Geography, and the Work of Genre on the Early Modern Stage, Modern Language Quarterly 64:3 (September 2003): 299-322. Lisa Jardine, Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (1989) William Kerrigan and Gordon Braden, The Idea of the Renaissance (1989) John King, Foxes Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture (2006) Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: England Before the Industrial Age (1971) Barbara Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (1979) C. S. Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama (1968) Leah Marcus, Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton (1996) (8) *Arthur Marotti, Print, Manuscript, and Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England (2000)

Louis Martz, The Poetry of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century (1954) Nabil Matar, Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery (1999) Claire McEachern, The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (2006) Karen Newman, Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama (1991) David Norbrook, Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance (1984) Stephen Orgel, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeares England (1996) Patricia Parker, Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property (1987) Gail Kern Paster, The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England (1993) Annabel M. Patterson, Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing And Reading in Early Modern England (1984) (9) *G. W. Pigman, Versions of Imitation in the Renaissance, Renaissance Quarterly 33 (1980): 1-32 Kristen Poole, Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England (2006) John Rogers, The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton (1996) Michael Schoenfeldt, Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Shakespeare, Herbert and Milton (1999) Randolph Starn, A Postmodern Renaissance? Renaissance Quarterly 60 (2007): 1-24 Roy Strong, The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry (1977) E. M. W. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture (1943) (10) *Linda Woodbridge, Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind (1986)