Between last time and now, and for Wednesday

Prompt #14 said, "Either way, everyone will read all the revised reports and post a reply to each with further questions and suggestions (these reports are going to continue growing for a while)." Between now and next Wednesday, everyone should go read the recent comments and responses to their report, go back to your sources or to new ones, and revise it.

By Wednesday at class time, whatever other changes have been made, each report should have a coherent text addressing the question or issue you're working on, and below it a list of references or annotated bibliography, in consistent bibliographical form. If there are parts of your report which aren't directly related to your current focus, you should copy them elsewhere to save them for later, and delete them from the current report.

Preliminary reports on early plays

We now have reports on the Early Plays forum on  all or most of the eleven 1660-1670 plays from the list of plays:

1. Boyle, Roger, Earl of Orrery. The Tragedy of Mustapha, the son of Solyman the Magnificent (1665).
2. Boyle, Roger, Earl of Orrery. The History of Henry the Fifth (1664).
3. Dryden, John, and Sir Robert Howard. The Indian Queen (1664).
4. Dryden, John. Tyrannick Love; or, The Royal Martyr (1669).
5. Dryden, John. The Conquest of Granada (1670).
6. Etherege, Sir George. She Would if She Could (1668).
7. Howard, Sir Robert. The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman (1665).
8. Howard, Sir Robert. The Great Favourite, or The Duke of Lerma (1668)
9. John Lacy. The Old Troop; or, Monsieur Raggou (1664).
10. Sedley, Sir Charles. The Mulberry Garden (1668).
11. Tuke, Sir Samuel. The Adventures of Five Hours (1664).

Between now and next Friday

Everyone should find a copy of the play they've chosen, or been assigned, and find some further information about it, from anthology introductions, literary histories of the period, or scholarly literature, and write a report of at least a couple of pages, summarizing what's important about the play -- what do scholars, critics and historians have to say about its character, its importance, its influence, and its author? -- and describing how it's written and sounds. You won't have to read all the play, but you should read enough to get a sense of how it sounds and what it's like, and convey that to us, preferably by quoting passages.

You should also keep track of questions that are raised for you as you work on this, and include them at the very end as a list of issues to be explored.

I will set up wiki pages for each play report.