Fall 2008
MWF 11:30-12:20
Professor: Laura Aydelotte
lea1@uchicago.edu
Office Hours: Friday 10:30-11:30
Rosenwald 510 (accessed from the 4th floor of Rosenwald)
Chalk Site (Working Again! Access for registered students only.)

Welcome to "Envisioning the Renaissance." This course will explore the interaction between poetry and the visual arts in the English Renaissance in relation to the themes of sex, politics,and religion during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. The poetic works we will be reading include drama by Shakespeare, Jonson and Webster; verse by Sidney and Spenser; and religious poems by Donne and Herbert, among others. Alongside these poetic works we will be looking at a wide variety of visual representations from the same period including portraits, architecture, stage designs and emblems.

• All course images will be made available for viewing online at ARTstor (Click here for instructions on signing up for ARTstor and accessing the images.)
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Sixteenth Century, The Early Seventeenth Century, vol. 1B
• Shakespeare, Richard II, Bantam ed.
• Shakespeare, The Tempest, Bantam ed.
• Course Packet (containing a few of the poems not contained in the Norton, and selected critical sources)

• 10% General Participation
• 15% Participation assignments. You choose an four weeks in the course of the quarter to either write a one page informal response paper or complete the participation assignment for that week. Due on the Friday of the week the material is taught in.
• 35% First Paper: 3-5 pages. Due October 27th Paper 1 prompts
  
• 40% Second Paper: 6-8 pages. Due December 8th Paper 2 prompts
  

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Viewing the course images on ARTstor

1. Go to the ARTstor site here: ARTstor

2. In the upper right hand corner there will be a little box that says "Enter the ARTstor digital library. Click the orange "Go" button in that box.

3. There will now be a new screen with another little box in the same place that says "Log in to ARTstor." If you don't already have an account, click on the "Not registered?" link to create one by entering your e-mail and a password. This should work if your University proxy server is functioning correctly, but if you are having trouble registering, see step 4.

4. (Skip this if you successfully registered in step 3.) If your proxy isn't working to allow you to register, you'll need to either register for the first time on campus in the library (after that it should work remotely) or try directly accessing via the library proxy by going to the library database page and clicking on the link to ARTstor there (artstor link in library database) From there you should be able to register for the site as described in steps 1-3 above. If none of this works, e-mail me and I will try to help.

5. Once in ARTstor, you will be able to access the files with the course images. The files are password protected, so you will need to go to the "Find" tab and then select "Unlock password protected folder." In the prompt type in your name and the password, which is "holbein." This should allow you to open the main folder "Envisioning the Renaissance." Images are sorted into subfolders named according to the lecture number in which they were presented.

Again, if you have problems with any of the above, please contact me at lea1@uchicago.edu, and I will do my best to help.

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