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Early Modern Timeline
Before class, spend a few minutes reviewing the Exchanging Vows timeline. This interactive timeline will introduce you to important bonds that were formed or broken during the sixteenth century...
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Hidden Knowledge Exercise
Do you believe there are limits to what human beings can or should know? Before class, make a list of subject areas on the frontier of scientific exploration. You may list either broad subjects studied...
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Sonnet Summary assignment
Shakespeare’s sonnets often strike students as overly complex and difficult on first reading, but breaking them down into smaller parts can make the process of interpreting them easier. How can you...
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Carpe Diem Readings
If the protagonists in the carpe diem poem are always young, vital, and full of passion, their antagonist is always time. The enemy of love and lovers is the progression of time, an ever-present...
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Redefining Carpe Diem
Professor John Keating reintroduced the phrase carpe diem into American vernacular in 1989 when he told the newest members of the Dead Poet’s Society to “seize the day, boys, make your lives...
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Festive Comedy
Most students come to college with some familiarity with the plays of William Shakespeare, but often these previous experiences were with tragedies. What many of these students find surprising then is...
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Staging Shakespeare Interview
For the more than two centuries of our history, Shakespeare has remained the most produced playwright in American theaters. From Junior High productions of Romeo and Juliet and amateur community...
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Memento Mori Readings
Up until the plague outbreaks of the seventeenth century, most communities had an unsettling habit of burying people in the church. Wealthy aristocrats and merchants would leave money for a monument or...
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UNIT 2: The Early Modern Period
The Renaissance in England is just as difficult to define, connected in many ways to the new learning from Italy and the Continent but not developing in terms of painting or the visual arts. The...
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