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Fall 2008 syllabus
English 336.001

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The Tudor Dynasty
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Renaissance--The Elizabethan World
Elizabethan Costuming Page
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Literary Resources--Renaissance
Sixteenth-Century English Literature
Renaissance Women Online
Words, Words, Words: The Art of Renaissance Rhetoric
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Renascence Editions (on-line early modern texts)
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Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet (Especially recommended) 
Shakespeare Globe USA
(Especially recommended) 
Folger Library On-Line Resources
(Especially Recommended) 
Internet Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Globe

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The fruicte at firste is sower, till time give pleasante taste: 
And verie rare is that attempte, that is not harm'd with haste. 
Perfection comes in time, and forme and fashion gives: 
And ever rashenes, yeeldes repente, and most dispised lives. 
Then, alter ofte, and chaunge, peruse, and reade, and marke: 
The man that softlie settes his steppes, goes safest in the darke. But if that thirst of fame, doe pricke thee forthe too faste: 
Thou shalt (when it is all to late) repente therefore at laste. 
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My sample outline for a Taming of the Shrew essay

Sample essay on Midsummer Night's Dream

Sample essay on Taming of the Shrew

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Sample Close Reading Paper