LIT-332 Renaissance Drama: From the Edge of the City to the Edge of the Law

The course focuses on Renaissance drama, a time when playhouses faced censorship, plague closures and competition from bears wrestling dogs. From being murdered, to prison sentences, to death by plague, many of the writers had a hard time too. We will study plays (some obscure, some quite strange, other rather famous, all enormously interesting) from this very rich and volatile period of literary history.

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(Writing Intensive.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

Three courses in Literature or permission of the instructor.

Offered

Spring

Notes

(History or Genre).