Each response should fill at least one screen. Your answer to these questions should be posted to the list no later than Friday of the week assigned. The server dates your messages, so you canŐt fudge on these.
Week 1: Using either Netscape or Mosaic, explore the Labyrinth (http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/Virtual_Library/Medieval_Studies.html) areas on Anglo-Saxon culture. Describe what you find there and then discuss how this material increases your understanding of Beowulf.
Week 2: Explore the Chaucer section of the Brit Lit web page. Compare this to what you found in the Labyrinth. How does this material help you to better understand The Canterbury Tales?
Week 3: How do you think Chaucer wants us to feel about the Wife of Bath?
Week 4: Explore the Adam and Eve section of the Brit Lit web page. What recurring images do you see in the visual representations of the Fall? How are these reflected in the Creation Plays?
Week 5: Look at the Brannagh version of Much Ado in the library and compare it to the version we are seeing in class.
Week 6: Write a brief response to Donne's "Elegy 19"
Week 7: What did you think about the midterm?
Week 8: How has Milton used ideas from the Creation Plays in Paradise Lost?
Week 9: Has Milton been fair to Eve?
Week 10: Has Aphra Behn characterized Oroonoko fairly?
Week 11: Who or what does Swift satirize in Gulliver's Travels
Week 12: Define soap opera. Does this definition fit Evelina?