APPROACHES TO TEACHING THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN

Eds. Jayne Lewis and Lisa Zunshine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Preface (Jayne Lewis)

II. Materials (Jayne Lewis):

• Primary Works
• Online Resources, Recordings, and Art Work
• Background Materials and Criticism
• Further Reading Recommendations
• Survey Issues

III. Approaches

Introduction (Jayne Lewis)

• Dryden: The Poetics and Politics of Transition
• Dryden’s Reception
• Teaching Within and Across Genres and Media

Poetry

1. Anna Battigelli (SUNY Plattsburgh), “John Dryden’s Trojan Horse: Religio Laici”

2. Cedric D. Reverand III (University of Wyoming), “Dryden the Elegist: ‘To the Memory of Mr. Oldham’ and ‘To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew’”

3. John Richetti (University of Pennsylvania), “Reading Dryden’s Verse: Generic Control in the Killigrew Ode and Oldham Elegy”

4. Deborah Kennedy (St. Mary's University, Halifax), “Dryden’s Sweet Saint: The Killigrew Ode in the Survey Course”

5. Christopher Dyer Johnson (Francis Marion University), “A King and No King: How to Use Dryden’s Engagement of the Reader in Absalom and Achitophel”

6. Kristin Wilcox (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Absalom and Achitophel in an Eighteenth-Century Survey Course”

7. Ann A. Huse (John Jay College of Criminal Justice), “Groups and Crowds: Restoring Dryden to the Core Curriculum”

8. Scott MacKenzie (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), ”Forward from MacFlecknoe: British Literature, 1660-the Present”

Drama

1. Margaret Anne Doody (University of Notre Dame), “Introducing John Dryden the Dramatic”

2. Will Pritchard (Lewis and Clark College), “Teaching Marriage–à-la-Mode in a Course on Restoration Comedy”

3. Daniel Gustafson (Yale university) and Elliott Visconsi (University of Notre Dame), “Teaching Dryden’s Heroic Plays”

4. Blair Hoxby (Stanford University), “Teaching the Passions in All for Love”

5. Dianne Dugaw (University of Oregon), “Multimedia Dryden: All for Love and a Performative Baroque Aesthetic

6. Tom Bonnell and Katie Sullivan (Saint Mary’s College), “A Potion for Secret Love”

7. Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Syracuse University) and Kathryn Loverre (Michigan State University), “‘Hither This Way’: Musical Dryden for Non-Musician Students (and Teachers)”

8. J. Caitlin Finlayson (University of Michigan, Dearborn), “’Originally Shakespear’s’: Adaptation and Critique and All for Love and The Tempest”

9. Elizabeth Bobo (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), “The State of Innocence and Paradise Lost: The Politics of Adaptation”

Prose and Translation

1. Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), “Dryden and Rochester: Tracing Literary Rivalries in Dryden’s Prefatory Texts”

2. Aaron Santesso (Georgia Tech University), “Forgetfulness and Authorian Presence in Dryden’s Prose”

3. Adam Potkay (College of William and Mary), “Teaching Dryden’s Latin Translations: Lucretius, Virgil, and the Honeybee”

4. Philip Smallwood (Birmingham City University, United Kingdom), “Questioning Nature: Dryden’s Fables, Ancient and Modern”