Assignment for Paper #1. Due Monday April 16. Approximately 750 words
  1. Select an emblem or picture and relate both its content and its form of expression to passages in one of the works we have read.
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    1. e.g. http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/withe022.htm in relation to the treatment of youth in Utopia and to the games they play setting vices against virtues
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  2. Relate one or more incidents in Shakespeare in Love to aspects of the texts we have read, for example
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    1. The character of Queen Elizabeth or Christopher Marlowe
    2. The political, economic and symbolic meanings of "the new world."
    3. The status of women
  3. Discuss the process of colonization and attitudes toward the colonized in Utopia, Raleigh's Discovery of the large, beautiful and rich Empire of Guiana and the Voyage literature on pp. 1066-1078
  4. Contrast attitudes toward wealth, and specifically gold, in Utopia, the voyage literature and Tamburlaine.
  5. Evaluate the Utopians' ideas about love, passion and sex--what are their strengths and limitations
  6. Compare and contrast the ways Elizabeth and Tamburlaine achieve political power with rhetorical power.
  7. Compare the image the image of the ruler in Holbein's Henry VIII, Elizabeth's poems and speeches, Tamburlaine and Utopia.
  8. "Guiana is a country that hath yet her maidenhead, never sacked, turned, nor wrought..."(p. 1064) Discuss the discourse of virginity in the travel literature, Tamburlaine, and Elizabeth's self-fashioned image.
  9. Analyze the wordplay in one of the poems we've read with extensive citation of 16th century meanings and etymology from the OED
  10. Analyze the way sound and sense reinforce one another in one or two of the poems assigned. Include discussion of meter and rhythmic variation.

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  11. Find and explain humorous passages in the works we've read so far.
  12. Discuss the construction of beginnings or endings in four or five short poems.
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