Catalog Description: Intensive study of one historical period of literature.
Prerequisites: ENGL 206 and one British or American survey course; upper division standing.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Read Restoration and 18th-century drama critically,
• Identify and distinguish the characteristics of this literature,
• Situate this literature within its historical and aesthetic context,
• Integrate secondary sources as part of interpretation, and
• Employ effective writing strategies for discovery and demonstrating learning.

• Participating in classroom discussion and activities (10%),
• Presenting information regarding a particular play (20%),
• Writing two multiple-draft formal papers (Short Paper and Term Paper; 60%),
• Providing feedback regarding the work of classmates (5%), and
• Presenting term paper during final exam period (5%).

• McMillin Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy (Norton edition required)
• Finberg Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists
• Gay The Beggar's Opera (in the bookstore or online at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/beggar.html)
• Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
• Lillo The London Merchant (on reserve)
• Copies of secondary sources and extra copies of drafts
• College dictionary and MLA citation format handbook or access to web page at: http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

Schedule:
 

This schedule may be altered during class. Presentation and Short Paper deadlines depend on play selected.
 

Date	Class Activities	Assignments Due
WEEK 1 9/29M	Course introduction, drama introduction Historical background
9/30T	Historical background, presentation sign-up	McMillan section on stage 534-64
10/1R	Wycherly	Wycherly The Country Wife (1675; in McMillan 3-85)
10/2F	No class	Recommended: Etherege The Man of Mode (1676; in McMillan 87-167)
WEEK 2 10/6M	Wycherly	Dryden, Congreve, and Goldsmith essays (in McMillan 466-480, 489-492) Powell (in McMillan 582-592)
10/7T	Behn	Behn The Rover (1677; in McMillan 169-248)
10/9R	Behn
10/10F	Behn	Diamond (in McMillan 597-611)
WEEK 3 10/13M	Pix presentation	Pix The Innocent Mistress (1697; in Finberg 1-74)
10/14T	Pix
10/16R	Pix
10/17F	Collier Controversy	Collier Controversy in McMillan 493-516
WEEK 4 10/20M	Congreve presentation	Congreve The Way of the World (1700; in McMillan 251-319)
10/21T	Congreve
10/23R	Congreve	Price and Brown (in McMillan 612-621)
10/24F	No class
WEEK 5 10/27M	Centlivre presentation	Centlivre The Busybody (1709; in Finberg 75-143)
10/28T	Centlivre, review Term Paper assignment
10/30R	Centlivre
10/31F	Centlivre	Recommended: Steele The Conscious Lovers (1722; in McMillan 321-383)
WEEK 6 11/3M	Gay presentation	Gay The Beggar's Opera (1728)
11/4T	Gay	First Generative Writing due
11/6R	Gay
11/7F	No class
WEEK 7 11/10M	Lillo presentation	Lillo The London Merchant (1731; on reserve)
11/11T	Lillo
11/13R	Lillo	Second Generative Writing due
11/14F	Goldsmith presentation	Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer (1773)
WEEK 8 11/17M	Response Groups	Bring 3 copies of Rough Draft
11/18T	Goldsmith
11/20R - 11/21F	No class
WEEK 9 11/24M	Sheridan presentation	Sheridan The School for Scandal (1777; in McMillan 385-454)
11/25T	Sheridan
11/27R - 11/28F	Thanksgiving Holiday--no class
WEEK 10 12/1M	Cowley presentation	Cowley The Belle's Strategem (1780; in Finberg 212-280) Recommended: Farquhar The Beaux' Strategem (1707; online at http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/87/1879/frameset.html)
12/2T	Cowley
12/4R	Cowley
12/5F	Course evaluations	Term Paper and any revisions due
FINAL TBA	Final	Presentation

Last update 9/03.