Class Schedule, English 109

Tuesday 31: Taming of the Shrew
Comparison of performances and discussion

Wednesday 1: Bakhtin and Frye Quiz
The Country Wife
Introduction to the Restoration and 18th C.

Thursday 2: Richard Steele, The Tatler, No. 219
Oliver Goldsmith, "An Essay on the Theater"
Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality

and Profaneness of the English Stage
Read Introduction, first seven paragraphs of
Chapter I and first three paragraphs of the
selections from Chapter 4

Note: All readings are in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century
Comedy
and all are very short

Friday 3: Film of The Country Wife

Monday 6: The Conscious Lovers

Note: You should have turned in by this point ten pages of writing

Tuesday 7: She Stoops to Conquer

Wednesday 8: Discussion Continued
Quiz on Steele, Goldsmith, and Collier
Introduction to the 19th and 20th centuries

Thursday 9: The Importance of Being Earnest

Friday 10: Film of The Importance of Being Earnest

Monday 13: The Arms and the Man

Tuesday 14: What the Butler Saw

Thursday 16: Last day to turn in papers