English 312 - Renaissance Drama

Institution:

Macalester College

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Description:

This course examines a selection of plays by Shakespeare's greatest contemporaries and rivals: among them Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Topics will include secularization, commercialism, staging and performance, meta-theatricality, deception, revenge and violence, black comedy, melodrama, transvestitism, eroticism. Alternate years. (4 credits)

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.macalester.edu

Phone Number:

(651) 696-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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