Schedule of Readings and Assignments
Course Policies and Requirements
Unit Handouts
Final Exam
"Romance": a definition
The 39 Articles (pdf)
Portraits of Elizabeth I
Listen to Book III--mp3 files!
Summaries
Some summaries of individual stanzas (scroll down for Bk III)
SparkNotes (sadly); use the links on the left for the other cantos in Book III
Book III seems to play around with the "damsel in distress" motif. Here's a two-part analysis of the trope in contemporary video games: part 1 part 2