The Class. At the close of each lecture a class will be held for questions and further discussion. All are urged to attend it and to take an active part. The subjects discussed will ordinarily be those arising from the lecture of the same evening. In centres in which no Students' Association (see below) has been formed, the class will afford opportunity for the lecturer to comment on the papers subImitted to him. The Weekly Papers.-Every student has the privilege of writing and sending to the lecturer each week, while the course is in progress, a paper treating any theme from the lists given at the end of each part of the syllabus. The paper should have at the head of the first sheet the name of the writer and the name of the centre. Papers may be addressed to the lecturer, University Extension, 111 South Fifteenth street, Philadelphia. The Students' Association.—Every lecture centre will be greatly helped in its work by the formation of a club or other body of students and readers desirous of getting the stimulus that working in common affords. This Students' Association will have its own organization and arrange its regular programme, if possible, both before and after as well as during the lecture course. The lecturer will always lend his help in drawing up programmes, and, when the meeting falls on the day of the lecture, will endeavor to attend and take part. Much of the best work of Extension is being done through the Students' Associations. The Examination.-Those students who have followed the course throughout will be admitted at the close of the lectures to an examination under the direction of the lecturer. Each person who passes the examination successfully will receive from the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching a certificate in testimony thereof. The Age of Elizabeth. Lecture I. Life and Manners of Court and Society. II. The Problem of the Poor. FROWDE. History of England. GREEN. History of the English People. HALL. Society in the Elizabethan Age. (Swan, Sonnenschein.) TRAIL. Social England. Vol. II., Vol. III. AIKIN. Court and Times of Queen Elizabeth. BRIGHT. History. Vol. II. CORBETT, JULIAN. Drake. English Men of Action. English Men of Letters. Spenser, Sidney, Bacon. (Macmillan.) L. CREIGHTON. Sir W. Raleigh. Rivingtons' Historical Biographies. MOULTON. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist. (Clarendon Press.) BEESLY. Elizabeth. Twelve English Statesmen. HARRISON. Elizabethan England. (Walter Scott's reprints.) LECTURE I. LIFE AND MANNERS OF COURT AND SOCIETY. A. The Queen. Her life before her accession to the throne. Difficulties which surrounded her position in 1558. Her appearance, attainments and character. Her vanity, caprice and love of admiration. Her parsimonious administration. Negotiations for a marriage. Adulation of her Court. B. The Court and Courtiers. Life at Court. Courtiers and Ministers. Dudley, Earl of Leicester. The Queen's progresses throughout England. Lavish entertainments. The amusements of that age. Raleigh and Essex. Costume of the period. State of education at that time. Contrast between the enlightenment and superstition of the time. Magic, Witchcraft and Alchemy. Influence of geographical discovery on Social Life. Influence of Spanish manners and ascendancy in Europe. C. Appearance of England. Facilities for travel. State of the roads. A state pageant on the river. The streets of London. Plague and Pestilence. Apprentices and Riots. Fashionable life of the town. Public and private buildings. The Country. Inns and entertainment. Love of gardening. Sports and pastimes in the country. A day in a country house. LECTURE II. THE PROBLEM OF THE POOR. A. Changes in the Social Condition of the People during Modern conditions of life and labour largely due to the decay of feudalism. Wage-paid labour. Attempts to limit price of labour by Law. Decay of hospitality. Depreciation of the Coinage. Price of commodities. The rise of the Capitalist. Growth of the modern industrial view to buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market. Great holdings in land without the responsibilities of ancient feudal tenure. Grazing farms and enclosures. Decline of the small proprietor. Outcasts, vagabonds and beggars. Religious changes and their social effects. Relaxation of religious obligations—the dissolution of the monasteries. Neglect of the Poor. Latimer's sermons before the King. Social risings under Henry VIII and Edward VI. Disbanded soldiers and sailors swell the list of homeless and unemployed. B. Attempts to remedy the Evil. Frequent acts against enclosures. Attempt to regulate wages according to the price of gold and silver. Act of Elizabeth to ensure four acres of land to each cottage. Act to compel voluntary assistance for the poor by offertories in church. The Poor Law of 1572. Intervention of the State to protect the individual: not the beginning of State Socialism. The Poor Law of 1597: its terms, scope and effect. LECTURE III. THE HERO AS BUCCANEER. A. Causes and growth of the New Spirit of Adventure. A manifestation of Renaissance energy. Mixed motives which influenced the adventurers—patriotism, religion, and love of gold. The Buccaneer as Crusader. The New World. Claims of Spain upon it. Position of Spain at this time. English feeling towards Spain. B. Devonshire Heroes. (1) Francis Drake. Early life and associations. Cruises with Hawkins to the West Indies. Failure of the expedition. Effects of this upon Drake. Expedition of 1567. "The peak of Darien.' Drake and the Queen. "The world encompassed'-narrative of Drake's voyage round the world. Effect of Drake's voyage upon the political situation. Drake knighted by the Queen. The expedition to Cadiz, and the Armada. (See Lecture IV.) Last voyage of Drake, 1596. His character and aims. (2) John Hawkins. His influence upon the English Navy. Brief notes upon his voyages. (3) Sir Walter Raleigh. Place of Raleigh in the Elizabethan age. Raleigh and Spain. Expedition to the Orinoco. His Imperial Schemes. Raleigh as Courtier, Poet and Statesman. Raleigh's disgrace. His History of the World. Last voyage in search of El Dorado. His failure, return and execution. (4) Sir Richard Grenville and 'the Revenge.' |