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A list of readings by session is presented below.



Required Texts


Amazon logo Brecht, Bertolt. Galileo. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780802130594.

Amazon logo Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. London, UK: A&C Black, 1985. ISBN: 9780413566706.

Amazon logo Ford, John. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays. Edited by Marion Lomax. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780192834492.

Amazon logo Kushner, Tony. Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia and Other Plays. New York, NY: Theatre Communications Group, 1998. ISBN: 9781559361569.

Amazon logo Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Edited by R. A. Foakes. London, UK: Thomson Learning, 1997. ISBN: 9780174434603.

Amazon logo Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780691024325.



Other Assigned Readings


Amazon logo Barish, Jonas. "Puritanism, Popery, and Parade." The Antitheatrical Prejudice. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780520052161.

Behn, Aphra. "Not to sigh and to be tender." In Lycidus. 1688.

———. "To the Honourable Edward Howard, on his Comedy Called The New Utopia." In Poems on Several Occasions. 1684.

Amazon logo Betterton, Thomas. "The Qualifications of a Player." In Actors on Acting. Edited by Toby Cole and Henen Krich Chinoy. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780517884782.

Blake, Anne Beckwith. "'To Keepe her Spotles from an Act of Ill': The Construct of an Elizabethan Woman."

Amazon logo Bordinat, Philip, and Sophia B. Blaydes. Sir William Davenant. Boston, MA: Twayne, 1981, chronology and chapter 1. ISBN: 9780805767957.

Boyle, Robert. Selections.

Amazon logo Brockett, Oscar G., and Franklin J. Hildy. History of the Theater. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2002, chapters 5 and 9. ISBN: 9780205358786.

Brome, Richard. The Antipodes.

Browne, Thomas. Hydriotaphia, or Urne Buriall.

Amazon logo Butler, Martin. "The Condition of the Theatres in 1642." In The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol I, Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521650403.

Amazon logo Butler, Martin. Theatre and Crisis: 1632-1642. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1984, chapters 1-3. ISBN: 9780521246323.

Carew, Thomas. "To His Inconstant Mistress." (See a version of this text from Bartleby.)

Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. "A Dialogue Between the Body, and the Minde." In Philosophicall Fancies. 1653.

———. "Of the Motion of the Planets." In Philosophicall Fancies. 1653.

Amazon logo ———. Sociable Letters. Edited by James Fitzmaurice. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, letter 9, pp. 18-19. ISBN: 9780815324515.

Amazon logo Clare, Janet. "General Introduction: The Theatre and Cultural Revolution." In Drama of the English Republic, 1649-1660. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780719044823.

Amazon logo ———. "Theatre and Commonwealth." In The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol. 1, Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521650403.

Amazon logo Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millenium. USA: Oxford University Press, 1970, conclusion and appendix: The "Free Spirit.". ISBN: 9780195004564.

Amazon logo Dillon, Janette. "Theatre and Controversy, 1603-1642." In The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol. 1, Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521650403.

Amazon logo Dunn, Richard S. "The Century of Genius." In The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1689. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1970.

Amazon logo ———. "The Puritan Revolution." In The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1689. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1970.

Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1973, forward, preface, and chapters 1 and 2.

Amazon logo Harris, Ellen T. "Musical Declamation." In Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780193152533.

Amazon logo ———. Handel and the Pastoral Tradition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 109-128. ISBN: 9780193152366.

Hawley, Judith. "Keep the Bunsens Burning." The Guardian, April 3, 2004.

Herrick, Robert. "Mrs. Eliz: Wheeler, Under the Name of the Lost Shepherdess."

Amazon logo Hill, Christopher. The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1982, appendices A-D. ISBN: 9780393300161.

Amazon logo ———. The World Turned Upside Down. New York, NY: Penguin, 1984, chapters 1 and 2. ISBN: 9780140137323.

Jones, Inigo. Selected sketches.

Amazon logo Jonson, Ben. "Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court." In Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques. Edited by Robert M. Adams. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1979. ISBN: 9780393090352.

Amazon logo Keller, Evelyn Fox. "Spirit and Reason at the Birth of Modern Science." In Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780300065954.

Amazon logo Knutson, Roslyn L. "Working Playwrights, 1580-1642." In The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol 1, Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521650403.

Amazon logo Lovejoy, Arthur. "The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography." In The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. New York, NY: Harper, 1960.

Amazon logo Milling, Jane. "The Development of a Professional Theatre, 1540-1660." In The Cambridge History of British Theatre Volume I: Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521650403.

Milton, John. "On Shakespeare, 1630." (See a version of this text from Bartleby.)

———. Paradise Lost. Book 1. (Download a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.)

Amazon logo Morton, A. L. "Religion and Politics in the English Revolution." In The World of the Ranters. London, UK: Laurence and Wishart, 1970. ISBN: 9780853152200.

Moulsworth, Martha. "The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow."

Amazon logo Norbrook, David, ed. The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse. New York, NY: Penguin, 1993, pp. 163-601: selections by Parker, Herrick, Marvell, Mure, Philips, Milton, Brome, Lovelace, Anonymous, and Wild. ISBN: 9780140423464.

Amazon logo Ollard, Richard. This War Without an Enemy. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1976. ISBN: 9780689107597.

Amazon logo Parry, Graham. Selections from The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1603-1700. Boston, MA: Longman, 1989. ISBN: 9780582493766.

Amazon logo Pearson, Henry Greenleaf. "Introduction." In The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Edited by Robert Emmons Rogers. Boston, MA: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921.

Philips, Katherine. "Upon the Double Murther of K. Charles I in Answer to a Libellous Copy of Rimes by Vavasor Powell." Poems. 1667.

Amazon logo Ridley, Jasper. "Henry VIII and the Religious Revolution." In The History of England. London, UK: Routledge, 1982. ISBN: 9780710007940.

Amazon logo Roach, Joseph R. In The Player's Passion. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1985, preface and chapter 1. ISBN: 9780874132656.

Amazon logo Sanders, Julie. Caroline Drama. Tavistock, UK: Northcote House, 1999, biographical and historical outline and chapter 1. ISBN: 9780746308776.

Amazon logo Seaver, Paul S. Wallington's World. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988, preface and chapters 1 and 2. ISBN: 9780804714327.

Amazon logo Sellar, Walter Carruthers, and Robert Julian Yeatman. 1066 and All That. London, UK: Methuen, 1991, compulsory preface and pp. 70-81. ISBN: 9780413772701.

Amazon logo Shapin, Steven. "The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge." In Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780226470146.

Amazon logo Shapin, Steven. A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995, chapters 2, 3, and 4. ISBN: 9780226750194.

Shirley, James. The Cardinal.

Smuts, Malcom. "Rethinking the Political Context."

Spenser, Edmund. Selections.

Amazon logo Stone, Laurence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. New York, NY: Penguin, 1990, pp. 483-527. ISBN: 9780140137217.

Amazon logo Tate, Nahum. "The History of King Lear." In Adaptations of Shakespeare. Edited by Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier. London, UK: Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415198943.

Theocritus. Selections.

Tyler, Margaret. The Mirrour of Princely Deeds and Knighthood." 1578, preface.

Virgil. Selections.

Amazon logo Weber, Eugen, ed. The Western Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Atomic Age. Boston, MA: DC Heath, 1959, pp. 362-397 and 410-423: Selections by Grimmelshausen, Mun, Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Hobbes.



Readings by Session



SES #TopicsREADINGS
1Introduction - To an Experiment and a Century

Objectives: To provide some basic grounding in the historical period, to establish the parameters of this subject, and to adapt our plan to fit the interests of our student participants.
2Discussion of Brecht's Galileo

Objectives: To examine one twentieth-century playwright's artistic practice, to establish our abilities and approaches as readers of drama, and to consider the reasons for writing historical drama set in the seventeenth century.
Brecht, Bertolt. Galileo.

If you have already read Galileo, please review the play and read: Lovejoy, Arthur. "The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography."
3Galileo in Historical Perspective: Developing QuestionsLovejoy, Arthur. "The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography.

"Dunn, Richard S. "The Puritan Revolution."

———. "The Century of Genius." (Skim)
4Discussion of King LearShakespeare, William. King Lear.

Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things. Chapter 1.
5The Changes Across a Century: The Example of Tate's King LearTate, Nahum. King Lear.

Selections from Tillyard and Willey
6Discussion with Historian of Science Arne HessenbruchShapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Chapter 1.
7John Ford's The Broken Heart

Optional Event: Literature presentation by playwright Max Hafler: "Faustus: Adapting and Directing the Elizabethan Bad Boy, Christopher Marlowe."
Ford, John. The Broken Heart.

Brockett. History of the Theater. Chapter 9.
8Guest ScholarSelections from The Western Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Atomic Age. Edited by Eugen Weber.
9Discussion of Brome's The Antipodes and Caroline TheaterBrome, Richard. The Antipodes.
10Discussion of Shirley's The CardinalShirley, James. The Cardinal.
11Visit from Prof. Mary Campbell, Poet and Author of Wonder and ScienceReadings in poetry and science.
12Visit from Prof. Ellen Harris on Davenant and MusicReadings on masques, music, and voice.
13Prof. Sonenberg's Solo Day
14The Civil War, in History and Art
15Churchill's Light Shining in BuckinghamshireChurchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire.

Selections by Christopher Hill.
16Poetry, Language, WitSelections from Browne, Milton, and Marvell.
17Discussion of Two Versions of HydriotaphiaKushner, Tony. Hydriotaphia.
18-19Experiments, Round One
20Reports and Discussion
21-22Reports and Break-outs
23-24That Which Needs Doing
25-26Experiments, Round Two

 








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