Readings are to be prepared by the date listed.  Chaucer assignments include Baugh’s introductions to individual works; Canterbury Tales assignments include any beginning and end linking passages for individual tales

1/9    Introduction

1/11     Baugh, xxii-xxxix (“The Language of Chaucer”); print out and begin to use "Basic Chaucer Glossary" in either html or pdf format, available in class Web Resources (Language); Short Poems: “To Rosemounde,” “Chauces wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn”; Boethius, skim Introduction; read Books 1-2

1/14     Baugh, xl-xlii (“The Versification of Chaucer”); Short Poems: “Gentilesse,”  “Truth,” “Lak of Stedfastnesse”; Boethius, Book 3

1/16     Short Poems: “Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan,” “The Complaynt of Chaucer to His Purse”;
Boethius, Book 4

1/18     Metrical exercise 1 due; Boethius, Book 5

1/21     MLK Day (no class)

1/23     Baugh, xi-xxi (“The Life of Chaucer”); Lee Patterson, “Chaucer” (Available online: www.yale.edu/engl125/text-only/lectures/lecture-1.html); The Book of the Duchess, lines1-744

1/25     The Book of the Duchess, lines 745-1334; Translation quiz 1

1/28     The Hous of Fame, lines 1-1090

1/30     The Hous of Fame, lines 1091-2158

2/1     Troilus and Criseyde, I.1-1092; Translation quiz 2

2/4     Troilus and Criseyde, II.1-1260

2/6     Troilus and Criseyde, II.1261-1757

2/8     Troilus and Criseyde, III.1-1239; Metrical exercise 2 due

2/11     First short paper due under option 1; research proposal due under option 2

2/13     Troilus and Criseyde, III.1240-1820

2/15     Troilus and Criseyde, IV.1-1232

2/18     Midterm Exam

2/20     Troilus and Criseyde, IV.1233-1701

2/22     Troilus and Criseyde, V.1-1232;  Metrical exercise 3 due

2/25     Troilus and Criseyde, V. 1233-1869; Translation quiz 3

2/27     The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, 1-476

[2/28     Mid-semester]

3/1     General Prologue, 477-858

3/4     The Knight’s Tale, 859-1880

3/6     The Knight’s Tale, 1881-2482

3/8     The Knight’s Tale, 2483-3108

3/11     The Miller’s Tale

3/13     The Reeve’s Tale; The Cook’s Tale

3/15     The Man of Law’s Tale

3/18     The Wife of Bath’s Prologue

3/20     The Wife of Bath’s Tale; “Lenvoy de Chaucer a Bukton”

3/22     The Friar’s Tale

3/25-29 Spring Break

4/1     The Summoner’s Tale

4/3     The Clerk’s Tale

4/5     The Merchant’s Tale

4/8     The Franklin’s Tale

4/10     The Physician’s Tale

4/12     The Pardoner's Tale

4/15     The Shipman’s Tale

4/17     The Prioress’s Tale

4/19     Sir Thopas; Melibee link

4/22     The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

4/24     The Second Nun’s Tale

4/26     The Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue; The Manciple’s Prologue and Tale

4/29     Term paper or second paper or web project due
 “To knytte up al this feeste, and make an ende”: The Parson’s Prologue;
Chaucer’s Retraction

5/8 “So that I may been oon of hem at the day of doome that shulle be saved”:
(Final Exam 11:00-1:30)

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