Course details

Name: ENGL - 511

Title: ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2020

Credits: 3

Description:
This course offers a comprehensive study of English drama from its medieval beginnings to the court-ordered Closing of the Theaters in 1642, with primary focus on major works by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists excluding Shakespeare (who has three courses of his own in this program!). We read medieval mystery and morality plays, Jonson (Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The Masque of Blackness), Marlowe (Dr. Faustus), Middleton (The Changeling), Beaumont and Fletcher (The Maid's Tragedy), Dekker (The Shoemaker's Holiday), Webster (The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil), and Ford ('Tis Pity She's a Whore). Many of these plays will surprise you; all of them remind us that Shakespeare neither lived nor wrote in a vacuum, and the culture that produced his plays also produced other masterpieces. We pay particular attention to shifts in subject matter and tone as reflections of contemporary political, social, and economic changes. Course requirements include bi-weekly mini-papers (2 pp.) and a substantial term paper (15-20 pp.) which will investigate in depth either the work of a single dramatist or the work of several period dramatists as expressions of a particular shared concern. Appropriate for MA, DUAL BA/MA and BA/MAT in English.

Last updated on 2019-10-16 By Liebler Naomi (lieblern)

Schedule: Wednesday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Drama)
• Pre-1700 (1a)
• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)
• Graduate (BA/MA)

Teaching Faculty: Liebler Naomi (lieblern)

Is course canceled: No