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3.00 Credits
May be taken in sequence with ENGL 13900/31100 or individually. This course is a survey of major trends and theatrical accomplishments in Western drama from the ancient Greeks through the Renaissance: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, medieval religious drama, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, along with some consideration of dramatic theory by Aristotle, Horace, Sir Philip Sidney, and Dryden. The goal is not to develop acting skill but, rather, to discover what is at work in the scene and to write up that process in a somewhat informal report. Students have the option of writing essays or putting on short scenes in cooperation with other members of the course. End-of-week workshops, in which individual scenes are read aloud dramatically and discussed, are optional but highly recommended. D. Bevington, H. Coleman. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
May be taken in sequence with ENGL 13800/31000 or individually. This course is a survey of major trends and theatrical accomplishments in Western drama from the late seventeenth century into the twentieth (i.e., Molière, Goldsmith, Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Wilde, Shaw, Brecht, Beckett, Stoppard). Attention is also paid to theorists of the drama (e.g., Stanislavsky, Artaud, Grotowski). The goal is not to develop acting skill but, rather, to discover what is at work in the scene and to write up that process in a somewhat informal report. Students have the option of writing essays or putting on short scenes in cooperation with other students. End-of-week workshops, in which individual scenes are read aloud dramatically and discussed, are optional but highly recommended. D. Bevington, H. Coleman. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
S. Mufwene. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: ENGL 14900 or Old English equivalent. Law and literature are both narratives that reveal much about the community that produces them. This seminar explores such legal issues as feud, marriage and status of women, and theft. We read and translate the legal texts that discuss these issues and see how literary texts incorporate legal elements to create tension and drive the narrative. Texts include laws from Aethelberht, Alfred, Edmund, and Cnut, as well as selections from Beowulf, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Juliana, and The Wife's Lament. J. Schulman. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
Interested students should contact Christina von Nolcken at mcv4@uchicago.edu. The class meets in the Newberry Library. J. Schulman. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of Chaucer's art as revealed in selections from The Canterbury Tales. Our primary emphasis is on a close reading of individual tales, but we also pay attention to Chaucer' s sources and to other medieval works that provide relevant background . C. von Nolcken. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the relations among psychology, ethics, and social theory in fourteenth-century English literature. We pay particular attention to three central preoccupations of the period: sex, the human body, and the ambition of ethical perfection. Readings are drawn from Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-poet, Gower, penitential literature, and saints' lives. There are also some supplementary readings in the social history of late medieval England. J. Schleusener. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Advanced standing. This course meets the critical/intellectual methods course requirement for students who are majoring in Comparative Literature. This course is a reading of some of the major travel narratives of the Silk Road and Tibet: Xuanzang, the most famous of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who went to the West; Marco Polo and others, who went to the East; a diplomat like Clavijo, who went to see Tamerlane; modern travelers, like the spies the British government sent from India to explore and map the area who were the prototypes for Kipling's Kim; and archaeologists, like Aurel Stein who went both ways on the Silk Road. We learn indirectly about the different religions and political regimes travelers experienced. M. Murrin. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
M. Murrin. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an exploration of Shakespeare's major plays in the genres of history plays and romantic comedy, from the first half (roughly speaking) of his professional career: Richard III, Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), Henry V, A Midsummer Night' s Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, Twelfth Night , an d Troilus and Cressida. D. Bevington. Winter.
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