I. Shakespeare, The Tempest.
Stephen Greenblatt, "Learning to Curse"*
Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations, 129-163*

Lecture: The Work of Shakespeare (Sacks)

II. Calderon de la Barca, "Life is a Dream"*
John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1-152.
Jean Delumeau, Catholicism Between Luther and Voltaire, 175-202*

Lecture: Free Will in Calderon and in the Catholic Reformation (Knapp)

III. Galileo, The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, 1-58, 175-227
Francis Bacon, "The Great Instauration" (in Edwin A. Burtt, ed. The English Philosophers)*
Bacon, "Thoughts and Conclusions"*
Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 200-216.

Lecture: The New Science (Bedau)

IV. Descartes, Discourse on Method & Meditations on First Philosophy

Lecture: The Cartesian Revolution (Bedau)

V. Pascal, Pensées, 33-95, 149-164, 210-212.
Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 58-68; 82-92; 152-164.

Lecture: Pascal's Wager (Bedau)

VI. Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvray, The Age of Magnificence: The Memoirs of the Duc de
Saint-Simon, (selected, edited, translated by Sanche de Gramont), 21-23, 185-90,
40-50, 97-100, 135-178.*
Norman Bryson, Word and Image, 29-88 (optional, on reserve).

Lecture: Court Society (Guest Lecture: Kierstead)

VII. Dunn, The Age of the Religious Wars, 178-189.
Racine, Phaedre
Moliere, Tartuffe

Lecture: Staging Virtue (Steinman)

VIII. Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves

Lecture: The Subject of Power (Steinman)

--SPRING BREAK--

IX. 'Agreement of the People,' & 'The Putney Debates,' in: Divine Right and Democracy,
ed. D. Wootton, 283-317*
Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 164-178.
John Milton, 'Areopagitica,' in: The Portable Milton

Lecture: Uncloistering Virtue (Sacks)

X. Hobbes, Leviathan, Book I, Introduction and chapters 1-6, 10, 12-16 (9-46, 62-69,
75-115); Book II, chapters 17-22, 24, 26, 29-31 (117-65, 170-76, 183-200,
221-254); Book III, chapters 32, 43 (255-59, 402-15); Review and Conclusion
(483-91)
Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, chap. 3, & pp. 189-198

Lecture: Hobbes and Skepticism (Sacks)

XI. John Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' in The Portable Milton

Lecture: Reading the World of the English Revolution (Steinman)

XII. John Locke, Essay on Human Understanding (in Edwin A. Burtt, ed. The English Philosophers)*
John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government

Lecture (on Tuesday): Primary and Secondary Qualities (Bedau)

Lecture (on Thursday): Labor and Liberty (Sacks)

XIII. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Lecture: Marooned (Knapp)

Books for Purchase

Course Pamphlet (available for purchase in Bookstore)
Richard S. Dunn, The Age of the Religious Wars:1559-1715. Norton
John Bossy, Christianity in the West. Oxford U.P. (Opus Books).
Wm. Shakespeare, The Tempest. (ed. S. Orgel) Oxford U. P.
Galileo, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (trans. Stillman Drake). Anchor Books.
Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations, 3rd. ed. Hackett.
Blaise Pascal, Pensees. Penguin Classics.
Jean Racine, Phaedra. Penguin Classics.
Moliere, Tartuffe (trans. Richard Wilbur). Harcourt Brace.
Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves. Meridian Classic.
Hobbes, Leviathan (ed. Richard Tuck). Cambridge.
John Milton, The Portable Milton (ed. Douglas Bush). Penguin Books.
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Penguin Classics.
John Locke, Second Treastise on Civil Government (ed. C. B. MacPherson). Hackett

Lectures will be on Tuesdays only except for week twelve or unless announced otherwise in class.

* Indicates that readings will be available in the Course Pamphlet.

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