Provisional Schedule

Jan 21    Organization
Jan 26    Introduction: Chaucer and the traditions, native and European
Jan 28    Introduction, continued
Feb 2     Chaucer, Book of the Duchess
Feb 4     Chaucer, House of Fame
Feb 9     Chaucer, Knight's Tale
Feb 11   Chaucer, Knight's Tale
Feb 16   Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Feb 18   Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Feb 23   Chaucer, reputation and imitation
Feb 25   Hoccleve, Male Regle (My Compleinte and Other Poems, ed. Ellis)
Mar 1     Hoccleve, Complaint (ditto)
Mar 3     Hoccleve, Dialogue (ditto)
Mar 8     SPRING BREAK    
Mar 10   SPRING BREAK
Mar 15   Lydgate, Siege of Thebes (ed. Edwards, TEAMS online)
Mar 17   Lydgate, Troy Book (selections TBA) (ed. Edwards, TEAMS online)
Mar 22   Bokenham, Legends of Holy Women (Collab)
Mar 24   Capgrave, Life of Saint Katherine (ed. Winstead, TEAMS online)
Mar 29   Capgrave, Life of Saint Katherine (ditto)
Mar 31   Charles of Orleans, selections (Collab)
Apr 5      Skelton, Speke Parott (Collab)
Apr 7      Skelton, Garland of Laurel (Collab)
Apr 12    James I of Scotland, Kingis Quair (ed. Mooney and Arn, TEAMS online)
Apr 14    Henryson, Moral Fables (selections TBA) (Complete Works, ed. Parkinson, TEAMS online)
Apr 19    Henryson, Testament of Cresseid (ditto)
Apr 21    Douglas and Surrey (TBA)
Apr 26    Spenser, Shepheardes Calender (ed. McCabe)
Apr 28    Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, and Dryden, The Wife of Bath, Her Tale (Collab)
May 3     Retrospect

TEXTS

Most of the texts for this course are available online or will be available through Collab.

1. The first thing you’ll need is an edition of the works of Chaucer, starting with the class on Febru­ary 2. If you already have any complete edition of Chaucer in the original, that will be fine; if not, I recommend The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson. I shan't order copies of this because American bookstores can sell only the Houghton Mifflin hard cover edition, which is very expensive, but you can obtain the much cheaper UK paperback edition through online book­sel­lers.

2. The following can be purchased from the UVA Bookstore:
Thomas Hoccleve, My Compleinte and Other Poems, ed. Roger Ellis (University of Exeter Press, 2001)
Edmund Spenser, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe (Penguin, 1999)

3. TEAMS editions are available for free download from <http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/catalog>
The volumes needed are listed there in alphabetical order as follows:
Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine, ed. Karen A. Winstead*
Henryson, The Complete Works, ed. David J. Parkinson*
The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems, ed. Linne R. Mooney and Mary-Jo Arn
Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes, ed. Robert R. Edwards
Lydgate, Troy Book: Selections, ed. Robert R. Edwards
You can also order these editions in hard copy as paperbacks through the above website or (often more cheaply) from online booksellers; you might prefer the hard copies for their greater con­ven­i­ence and larger print. Because we shall be reading very substantial parts of the two volumes mar­ked *, they will also be available for purchase from the UVA Bookstore.

4. The texts for April 21 will be available through Collab.