The Civil War

ENGL 520/622

Dr. Fike

Work in one of the following groups to prepare a report to the class on how the assigned texts fit into the chronology of the civil war.  Teach your 4-6 selections to the class. The elements of critical thinking and a bit of research in the library or on the Internet may help you unpack your material.  The basic question that you should answer is this:  How do your texts illuminate their respective part of the historical story of the English civil war?  All of the following readings appear in the Broadview.

Group One:  The lead-up to the civil war

• Laud, The Diary of…William Laud (164-82)
• Hyde, “The Character of William Laud” (609-17)
•  Charles I, “A Proclamation and Declaration,” etc. (420-23) 
• “Information from the Scottish Nation” (1235-36)

Group Two:  The civil war and the Interregnum

• “The Queen’s Letter” (606-08) and “Charles I to Prince Rupert” (1218)
• Walwyn, “The Bloody Project” (434-42)
• “The Trial of King Charles I” (1261-65)
•  Katherine Philips, "Upon the double Murder of K. Charles I" and "On the 3 of September 1651" (1008-10)
•  Oliver Cromwell, "Oliver Cromwell to Colonel Valentine Walton" (1217-18)
• Wood, “Notes on Oxford during the Interregnum" (1021-23)

Group Three:  The Restoration of King Charles II

• Evelyn, "The Restoration" (800-01)
• Charles II, “The Declaration of Breda” (965-66)
• Hyde, “The Temper and Spirit of the Nation after 1660” (618-22)
• "Katherine Philips, "On the Numerous Access of the English to wait upon the King in Flanders" (1009)
• Wood, "The Restoration" (1023-25)
• Burnett, "The Restoration" (1149-54)