I. Monday Jan 13

A. Admin

1. Seat chart and attendance

2. Creative project

3. Getty trip list

B. Utopia

1. On war and honor—741 and 743 vs. heroic ethos

a) Militarism vs. pacifism links

b) in Tamburlaine—introduction—the epic mode is military—paradise lost—the Knight in Chaucer; Beowulf

c) Pontormo portrait

d) Irony of multiple pretexts anyway 741—Biblical war

2. On colonialism and plantations—721

C. Exploration and exploitation

1. Ralegh—1201 and 1202: adventure and intrigue—luminarium pictures

a) El Dorado—gold! 1204-5

b) Natives 1207

c) Imperial rivalry 1211—the black legend of the Spanish

2. Barlow

a) The native fisherman 1213

b) The golden age 1216

c) Defenselessness of natives 1217

3. Hariot

a) “the School of night”

b) invisible bullets; theme of superstition 1218-19; illusion

D. Theatre

1. Ralegh’s “What is our life” 1194

2. Pictures of theatre—p. 653 and website

a) The liberties—bear bating

b) Shakespeare in love picture of the controversies

c) Totus mundus histrionum est

d) The Globe

e) Locus and Plataea

3. [break]

4. Marlowe

a) Overreacher and bad boy—educated but from middle class family

(1) Death in barroom fight—Ben Jonson—authors as adventurers and criminals—School of night

(2) Faustus; Jew of Malta; Edward II

(3) Aspiring mind—renaissance idea of ambition and pride—Satan

b) Tamburlaine—

(1) Popularity and sequel

(2) Language of Act 5;

(3) Act I—Mycetes mental and spiritual weakness vs.political amoral machiavellian intrigue; lion and the fox; virtu and fortuna

c) Power and energy of language

(1) scansion