EN 304 - Shakespeare II: Tragedies and Romances

Institution:

Hilbert College

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Description:

This course focuses on Shakespeare’s tragedies (mainly from 1600 onward) and romances. The plays will be studied in the context of their classical and native inheritance; the rise of theaters; stage conditions and theatrical companies; the London life of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater-poets; and the social, political, and religious constraints encountered by 16th-and 17th century English dramatists. The dramas will be examined as literary and enacted texts, with consideration of provenance, publication, and performance; generic categories of tragedy and romance; dramatic design and thematic patterns; character role analysis; and Shakespeare’s power of development in the plays of his mature years.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.hilbert.edu

Phone Number:

(716) 649-7900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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