Readings

A list of readings by session is presented below.

Required Texts

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other Assigned Readings

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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."

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

Boyle, Robert. Selections.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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.

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

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon ———. "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.

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

Buy at Amazon 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.

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

Buy at Amazon ———. "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.

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

Buy at Amazon ———. 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."

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

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

Jones, Inigo. Selected sketches.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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.)

Buy at Amazon 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."

Buy at Amazon 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.

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

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

Buy at Amazon 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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.

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

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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 # Topics READINGS
1 Introduction - 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.
 
2 Discussion 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."
3 Galileo in Historical Perspective: Developing Questions Lovejoy, Arthur. "The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography.

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

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

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

Selections from Tillyard and Willey
6 Discussion with Historian of Science Arne Hessenbruch Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Chapter 1.
7 John 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.
8 Guest Scholar Selections from The Western Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Atomic Age. Edited by Eugen Weber.
9 Discussion of Brome's The Antipodes and Caroline Theater Brome, Richard. The Antipodes.
10 Discussion of Shirley's The Cardinal Shirley, James. The Cardinal.
11 Visit from Prof. Mary Campbell, Poet and Author of Wonder and Science Readings in poetry and science.
12 Visit from Prof. Ellen Harris on Davenant and Music Readings on masques, music, and voice.
13 Prof. Sonenberg's Solo Day  
14 The Civil War, in History and Art  
15 Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire.

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