HW53

Extra Credit Special ProjectPaper Assignment

   

The Folger Shakespeare Library (aka Folger Institute aka Folger Theater) is located on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, near the Capitol and Library of Congress.  You would never know from looking at it that this simple, neoclassical building houses one of the world's great collections of Shakespeare related research material.  There is also an exhibition hall, and the Folger Theater preforms some of Shakespeare's--naturally--plays each year.  Photo credit Nigel Beale.

Since all students should enjoy their enrollment in this history course and, at the same time, earn the best possible grade, each student may do one of the HIS 101 Special Projects listed for extra credit.  Each project should be about two pages (maybe longer) in length.  In addition, your project must include complete bibliographic citation at the top left of the page (if necessary) with your name and date.  Some projects have different requirements. 

Book review (50 points). Write a review of the book. Do not just summarize the book's contents but also examine its strengths and weaknesses and place the book in its proper historical context.  You can suggest a different book.

 Archibald MacLeish, J. B.; Aristophanes, Lysistrata; Herodotus, Histories; Homer, The Iliad or The Odyssey; Plato, The Republic; Sophocles, Oedipus or Antigone; Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars; Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander; Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Gallic Wars; Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Plutarch, Parallel Lives of the Greeks and Romans; Virgil, The Aeneid; Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy; Bede, Ecclesiastical History; Beowulf; Egil's Saga; Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy; Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologica; Umberto Ecco, The Name of the Rose; Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances; Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron; François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel; John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion; Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote; Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers; Sir Thomas More, Utopia; Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.