Early Modern Reading Group
The Early Modern Reading Group is an interdisciplinary reading group housed in the University of Florida's Department of English. Our readings and discussions tend to focus on primary texts from the late Middle Ages to the mid-Seventeenth Century. Although we read all of our texts in English, we do read translations of other European works. UF undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members, and all those interested in this area of the Humanities are welcome to attend our meetings. We usually meet during the Fall and Spring semester in the home of one of our members. You can e-mail Horacio Sierra at hsierra@ufl.edu if you need directions for the next meeting or would like more information about the group.
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2009-2010 SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND READINGS
Sunday, September 27 @ 3 pm - John Milton, Samson Agonistes (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/samson/drama/index.shtml)
Hosted by Kelly Dunn
Saturday, October 31 @ 2 pm - Metaphysical poetry: John Donne -
The Flea, The Ecstasy, The Funeral . . . George Herbert - Church
Monuments, The Collar . . . Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
At Brophy's Pub
Saturday, November 21 @ 3 pm - Desiderius Erasmus, Education of a Christian
Prince
Hosted by Matt Snyder
Saturday, December 12 @ 3 pm - Viewing of a film adaptation of a Renaissance-era play TBA
Hosted by Jimmy Newlin
...Spring Semeser Schedule to be determined in January...
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2008-2009 SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND READINGS
Date/Host Readings
Sunday, 7 September @ 3 p.m.
First Planning
Meeting and Screening of First Half of HBO's "Elizabeth I" with
Helen Mirren
Hosted by Horacio
Sierra
Sunday, 28 September @ 3 p.m. Edmund Spenser, "The Shepheardes Calender" and
"Pastoral Poetry Revived and Explained" (http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/shepheard.html)
Hosted by Randi Marie
Sunday, 26 October @ 3 p.m.
Taliesen, "Urien Yrewydd," "The Battle of Argoed
Llwyfain," "The
War-Band's Return," "Lament for Owain Son of Urien" and "The Tale of
Taliesen" (all
in Longman Anthology) and "The Fight at
Finnesburg"
Hosted by Matt Snyder
Sunday, 23 November @ 3 p.m. Mallory, Morte d'Arthur (excerpts "The Miracle of Galahad," "The Poisoned Apple," and "The Day of Destiny" from the Longman Anthology) Hosted by Kelly Dunn
Sunday, 14 December @ 3 p.m. Shakespeare silent films/black&white shorts Hosted by Katie
Sunday, 25 January @ 3 p.m. Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World(HTML link through UF Library site) Hosted by Kristen Smith
Sunday, 22 February @ 3 p.m.
Pedagogy Roundtable: Teaching Medieval and Early Modern
Literature and/or History to Undergraduates
Hosted by Kristen Smith
Sunday, 29 March, @ 3 p.m. Ben Jonson, "Faults of Contemporary Drama" and Epicoene (Project Gutenberg) Hosted by Randi Marie
Sunday, 26 April @ 3 p.m. Chretien de Troyes, "Erec Et Enide," "Cliges," "Yvain," or "Lancelot" from "Four Arthurian Romances" (Project Gutenberg) Hosted by Kelly Dunn
Sunday, 17 May @ 3 p.m. Francis Beaumont, Knight of the Burning Pestle(Available Online) Hosted by Kristen Smith
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2007-2008 SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND READINGS
Date/Host Readings
Sunday, August 26 @ 3 p.m. First Planning Meeting and Screening of the 1998 Cate Blanchett film "Elizabeth"
Hosted by Horacio Sierra
Sunday, September 23 @ 4 p.m. Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's The Roaring Girl and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi
Hosted by Randi Marie Smith
Sunday, October 14 @ 4:15 p.m. Going to the movie theater to see the new Cate Blanchett film "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Sunday, October 21 @ 4 p.m. John Milton's "Paradise Regained"
Hosted by Kristen Smith
Sunday, November 18 @ 4 p.m. Religious Poetry by Henry Vaughan and George Herbert and a chapter from Ira Clark's Christ Revealed. Henry Vaughan: Day of Judgement, Religion, Isaac's Marriage, The British Church, The Lampe, Vanity of Spirit, The Retreate, The Resolve, The Match, Rules and Lessons, Corruption, Holy Scriptures, Christ's Nativity, The Stone, The Dwelling-Place, Tears, Jacob's Pillow and Pillar, and The Agreement George Herbert: The Altar, The Collar, and Church-Monuments
Hosted by Katherine Shaeffer
Sunday, February 17 @ 4 p.m. Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure
Hosted by Randi Marie Smith
Sunday, May 4 @ 4 p.m. Screening of the new film "Beowulf"
Hosted by James Newlin
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2006-2007 SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND READINGS
Date/Host Readings
October 15, 2006 @ 1:30 p.m. First Planning Meeting
Hosted by Horacio Sierra
November 19, 2006 @ 3 p.m. Ben Jonson's Volpone, Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, and Middleton's (?) The Revenger's Tragedy
Hosted by Randi Marie Smith
January 21, 2007 @ 3 p.m. Anonymous, Lazarillo de Tormes
Hosted by Kelly Dunn
February 25, 2007@ 3 p.m. Boccaccio, Decameron - Introduction, Introduction to Day 4, Story 1 of Day 4, and Author's Epilogue
Hosted by Kelly Dunn
March 25, 2007 @ 3 p.m. Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen - Book III "The Legend of Britomartis or Of Chastitie"
Hosted by Kristen Smith
April 15, 2007 @ 3 p.m. Screening of a 2002 filmed version of "The Revenger's Tragedy" set in post-apocalyptic Liverpool, England.
Hosted by Randi Marie Smith