English 7170 - Schedule of Readings and Assignments (currently subject to change)

Tuesday 8/24 A Laughing Matter  
Tuesday 8/31

An Evening at the Theatre
Noël Chevalier intro
Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage
Burney, The Cunning Man
Optional: 1903 Review and Images of The Clandestine Marriage

  
Tuesday 9/7

Goldsmith on the Theatre
Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer and "An Essay on the Theatre, or a Comparison Between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy"

  
Tuesday 9/14

Midcentury: the 1743 Drury Lane Revolt, and the Garrick/Macklin Acting Revolution
The Readings on the Drury Lane Revolt (PDF)
Pickering, Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy (PDF)
Readings on Garrick and Macklin

 
Tuesday 9/21

Library Day

  
Tuesday 9/28 Women and the Stage
Clive, The Rehearsal, or Bays in Petticoats (in Clandestine Marriage)
Actress Auto/Biographies
From Nussbaum, Rival Queens (PDF)		 Presentation: Jessica
Tuesday 10/5 Theatrical Criticism
William Cooke, The Elements of Dramatic Criticism (1775) (PDF)
Annotated Bibliography Due
Presentation: Bridget
Beyond The Stage
Tuesday 10/12

Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Paper Proposal Draft Due

Presentation: Michael
Tuesday 10/19 Samuel Johnson: In His Own Words
Johnson, from Dictionary, Lives of the Poets
Presentation: Holly and Roberta
Tuesday 10/26

Johnson According To Friends
Boswell, from Life of Johnson
(pages 1-9, 19-109, 272-344, 1248-1402 -- consult Index at back to follow other likely threads of interest)
Clark, "At Mrs. Garrick's" (PDF)

NOTE: Students who are applying to conferences with Nov 1 deadlines should plan to meet with ECF this week.

 Presentation: Krista
Tuesday 11/2

Another Circle: Hester Thrale
Thrale's Thraliana and Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (online)
Clark, "Hester Thrale and Mrs Montagu" (PDF)

Revised Proposal ("conference paper version") Due
(for students who did not submit last week)

 Presentation: Sarah and Katherine
Tuesday 11/9 Daughter of the Circle: "Fannikin"
Burney, Evelina
Optional: Hester Chapone, "Letters on the Improvement of the Mind" (ECCO Volume I)
Presentation: Stacey and Cassie
Tuesday 11/16

Hannah More
More, Percy (and some of the Cheap Repository Tracts) (PDF)
From Hannah More, The First Victorian (PDF)

Presentation: Megan and Morgan
Tuesday 11/23 Thanksgiving Break - No Class  
Tuesday 11/30 Poets of 1773
Barbauld, Poems
Phyllis Wheatley, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" (PDF)		 Presentation: Nick and Ashley
Tuesday 12/7

"Mini-Conference" Presentation of Work
  • The 18C Stage
    Chair: Stacey
    (Holly, Nick, Michael, Krista)
  • Bits on Burney(s)
    Chair: Michael
    (Megan, Ashley, Bridget)
  • The Spectacle of Dress
    Chair: Bridget
    (Cassie, Jessica, Katharine)
  • Love and Sex: The Good, the Bad, the Contagious
    Chair: Cassie
    (Sarah, Morgan, Roberta, Stacey)
  12/10 Papers Due