THR 333 - Renaissance Plays in Process

Institution:

Muhlenberg College

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Description:

This course will involve students in intensive semesterlong research projects focused on the social, political, literary, and cultural conditions that informed the composition, structure, and production of one or two plays of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. As such, it will require students to perform handson research on subjects ranging from the status of women in Elizabethan England established and evolving views on marriage legal statutes and judicial practices crime and punishment the licensing and censorship of plays attitudes toward homosexual practices social mobility the legal and social standing of citizens, apprentices, foreigners, and masterless men etc. The plays we will focus on will be topically or historically oriented, either drawn from the annals of English history, e.g. Marlowe's Edward II, from the news of the day, or from pronounced social anxieties of the time, such as the fear of witches. The course will require students to develop a broad range of interpretive skills and encourage them to bring their enriched understanding of the plays into the present in the form of research papers, study guides, production histories, blackbox performances, setdesigns, and video projects. Prerequisite: THR 100 Theatre & Society: An Historical Introduction or ENG 275 or permission of instructor.

Credits:

4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.muhlenberg.edu

Phone Number:

(484) 664-3100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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