I can't answer the general query, only having studented with this text,
but on the point of olde spelling:
In my experience, it's not that much of an issue. Students tend to
acclimate quickly, though I've always offered some basic pointers,
depending on the edition. I've even had freshman read shorter texts that
maintained the i & u typography, and they got it. Most of them text, and
if they can figure out texting orthography, old-spelling is a walk in
the park.
This semester I'm using Roberts' edition of Mary Wroth's poetry with
upper division students. The punctuation is causing a few headaches, as
is Wroth's often terse syntax (but that still causes me headaches!), but
the spelling, not so much. (On punctuation: as a class, we're
*beginning* to understand some of the logic behind what appears quirky
to modern readers.) And a substantive portion of my students at FIU are
generation 1.5 English learners, with a few genuine ESL students mixed in.
-Andy Strycharski
Michael Ullyot wrote:
> Since we're talking about teaching (excerpts & topics), does anyone have
> experience teaching with Norbrook and Woudhuysen's Penguin Book of
> Renaissance Verse? Patrick Cheney predicts in the MLA's *Approaches to
> Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry* (2000) that it "will likely become
> the preferred text [anthology]," as it has mine.
>
> I wonder if others can offer advice about selections, about mitigating
> the old-spelling effect (assign preliminary readings on early modern
> language?), about Norbrook's excellent introduction, &c.
>
> yours
> Michael Ullyot
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