Supplementary Text Options for Student Presentations, ENG1210
(note: an asterisk (*) indicates texts I would specifically encourage, though anything on this page is fair game)
- Raphael Holinshed, “The Second Booke of the Historie of England” in The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles (1587) *
- From The True Chronicle History of King Leir and his three daughters . . . As it hath beene divers and sundry times lately acted (1605) *
- Sir Phillip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (1590)
- An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates (1570)
- Charles Merbury, A Brief Discourse of Royal Monarchie, as of the Best Common Weale (1581)
- Sir Thomas Smith, De Republica Anglorum (1583) 163
- James VI of Scotland, The Trew Law of Free Monarchies (1599)
- James I of England, A Speech [. . .] delivered in the Upper House of Parliament on Monday the 19 March 1604, being the first day of the First Parliament
- Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, Gorbuduc (1562)
- Samuel Harsnett, A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603)
- Michel De Montaigne, “Of the Affection of Fathers for Their Children” from The Essays (London, 1603) *
- William Gouge, Of Domesticall Duties (1622)
- Joseph Swetnam, The Arraignment of Lewde, Idle, Forward, and Unconstant Women (1615)
- Jane Anger , Her Protection for Women (1589)
- Erasmus, A Letter to Martin Dorp (1515)
- Robert Armin, Foole upon Foole (1600)
- William Harrison,“Of the Ancient Religion Used in Albion” (1587)
- Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
- Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593)
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) *
- St. Augustine, The City of God, Book XIX (c. 413—427) *
- Nahum Tate, The History of King Lear (1681) *
- Lewis Theobald, The Censor (1715) *
- Samuel Johnson, “Notes on King Lear” in The Plays of William Shakespeare (London, 1765) *
- George Colman, the Preface to The History of King Lear (1768) *
- Charles Lamb, “On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation” (1810) *
- Charles Lamb, “King Lear” in Tales from Shakespeare (1807) *
- William Hazlitt , The Characters of Shakespear’sPlays (1818) *
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lectures on Shakespeare (1818)
- John Keats, “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again” (1818)
- Congreve, Love for Love *
- James Fordyce, "On the Importance of the Female Sex" *
- Thomas Gisborne, "On the Mode of Introducing Young Women into General Society"
- Thomas Gisborne, "On the Employment of Time"
- Frances Burney, An Unwanted Proposal of Marriage *
- Frances Burney, Directions for Coughing and Sneezing before the King and Queen *
- Richard Campbell, From The London Tradesman
- Joseph Addison, On the Royal Exchange (The Spectator, No. 69) *
- Joseph Addison, The Influence of French Fashions (The Spectator, No. 45) *
- Oliver Goldsmith, On London Shops (From The Citizen of the World)
- Henry Fielding, People of Fashion (From The Covent-Garden Journal)
- Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, On the London Theatre, (From The Spectator, Nos. 240, 245, and 502) *
- Anonymous, From A Sketch of the Spring-Gardens, Vaux-hall
- Oliver Goldsmith, On a Visit to Vauxhall Gardens (From The Citizen of the World)
- Tobias Smollett, On a Visit to Bath (From Humphry Clinker) *
- Christopher Anstey, From The New Bath Guide
- César de Saussure, From A Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I and George II
- W. de Archenholtz, From A Picture of England
- Carl Phillip Moritz, From Travels, Chiefly on Foot, Through Several Parts of England, in 1782
- Thomas Campbell, From Dr. Campbell's Diary of a Visit to England in 1775
- James Anthony Gardner, Voyages of a Seaman
- Edward Boscawen, Waging War against France
- Thomas Pasley, A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope
- Olaudah Equiano, Serving with the English Navy
- Cupid and Psyche
- Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto *
- William Beckford, Vathek *
- Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk *
- Ann Radcliffe, Supernaturalism (Biographia Literaria).
- Ann Radcliffe, Sensibility.
- Ann Radcliffe, Sublime (Curiosity).
- Ann Radcliffe, A The Mysteries of Udolpho *
- Ann Radcliffe, The Italian—Schedoni.
- Beckford, Azemia.
- Eaton Stannard Barrett, The Heroine.
- T.L. Peacock, Nightmare Abbey.
- “Faery lands forlorn.”
- Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker. *
- Sir Walter Scott, Waverley.*
- William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye*
- James Plumptre, The Lakers
- George Crabbe, The Village
- British Critic*
- Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine*
- Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)*
- Nathaniel Bailey, A Universal Etymological Dictionary (1782)
- Samuel Johnson, An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage (1748)*
- Isaac D’Israeli, The Calamities of Authors (1812) *
- Thomas Macaulay on Samuel Johnson (1831) *
- Henri Murger, Scènes de la vie de Bohème (1851)
- A Description of the Reading Room at the British Museum (1867)
- Walter Thornbury, Old and New London (1872)*
- James Payn, Some Literary Recollections (1884)
- H. D. Traill, "Author and Critic," Literature (1897)*
- Differing views of Grub Street and New Grub Street, from The Author (1891) *
- Thomas Carlyle, "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841)*
- Anthony Trollope, An Autobiography (1883) *
- Walter Besant and the Society of Authors
- Edmund Gosse Writes a Book Review
- Leopold Wagner, How to Publish a Book or Article and How to Produce a Play. Advice to Young Authors (1898)*
- Arnold Bennett on the Writing Profession
- Sir James G. Frazer, The King of the Wood
- The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
- The Killing of the Divine King
- [Adonis and Christ]
- James L. Weston, [The Grail Legend]*
- [The Grail Quest]
- [The Tarot Pack]
- [The Fisher King]
- [The Perilous Chapel]
- [Conclusion]
- Aldous Huxley, [Madame Sosostris]
- Charles Baudelaire, To The Reader
- The Seven Old Men
- John Webster, [Cornelia’s Dirge from The White Devil]
- Ovid, [The Blinding of Tiresias]*
- [The Story of Tereus and Philomela]
- Gene Buck and Herman Ruby, That Shakespearian Rag*
- Gotama Buddha, The Fire-Sermon
- Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion*
- Oliver Goldsmith, [Olivia’s Song from The Vicar of Wakefield]*
- James Anthony Foude, [Elizabeth and Leicester]
- St. Augustine, Confessions*
- King James Bible, [The Road to Emmaus]
- Sir Ernest Shackleton, [The Extra Man]
- Herman Hesse, [The Downfall of Europe]*
- From Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, The Three Great Disciplines*
- From Pervigilium Veneris
- Thomas Kyd, From The Spanish Tragedie*