ENGL 90243 - Middle English Drama

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course will survey the extant canon of both "religious" and "secular" dramatic texts - primarily those from the fourteenth-century up the the establishment of the professional theaters in the sixteenth in England, though we will also attend to antecedent practices in liturgy and civic spectacle. In addition to this survey, the course will also provide an introduction to primary source material in the Records of Early English Drama to allow us to investigate dramatic performance in historical context and will examine some of the more recent critical trends in scholarship by Carol Symes, Sarah Beckwith, and Ruth Nissé, among others, who have examined the definition and role of "drama" in medieval culture more broadly. Assignments will include a few short papers and presentations and one larger research project.

Credits:

3.00

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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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