ENGL 44215 - Shakespeare & Sexuality

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

EN 3475 Shakespeare and Sexuality at TCD; This is a two-semester module concerned with Shakespeare's representation of sexuality in a range of ten plays and the Sonnets. The issues to be discussed will include: proprietary patriarchy, love poetry and the construction of gender, death and desire, the comedy of courtship, oedipal desire, love and play, sexuality and sinfulness, love and war, male jealousy, sex and politics. While the course will largely involve close reading of the prescribed texts, there will be the opportunity to explore how feminism, psychoanalysis and gender studies have influenced our understanding of sexuality in Shakespeare in the modern period.

Credits:

10.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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