Course details
Name: ENGL - 352
Title: ENGLISH DRAMA: BEGINNINGS TO 1642
Section: 01
Semester: Fall - 2022
Credits: 3
Description:
This course takes up the birth of early English drama as a genuine "people's theater," beginning in amateur celebration and developing as professional entertainment. There was life—and theater—before, during, and after Shakespeare's time, from medieval craft-guild plays to early revenge tragedy to Christopher Marlowe (Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta), Ben Jonson (Volpone, Bartholomew Fair), John Webster (The Duchess of Malfi), John Ford ('Tis Pity She's a Whore), and others whose work was as popular as that of their more famous contemporary. The "closing" date of the course, 1642, marks the year when the public performance of plays was outlawed by an act of Parliament known as The Closing of the Theaters. Between the medieval origins of its drama and the criminalization of public theater, England produced a drama of extraordinary variety and power, and provided the context from which Shakespeare's work grew.
Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 9:45 am To 12:00 am
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)
Teaching Faculty: Rzepka Adam (rzepkaa)
Is course canceled: No