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Every other year. Fall 2006. WILLIAM WATTERSON. Explores the relationship of Richard III, 2 Henry VI, and the second tetralogy (Richard II, the two parts of Henry IV and Henry V) to the genre of English chronicle play that flourished in the 1580s and 1590s. Readings in primary sources (More, Hall, and Holinshed) are supplemented by readings of critics (Tillyard, Kelly, Siegel, Greenblatt, Goldberg, etc.) concerned with locating Shakespeare's own orientation toward questions of history and historical meaning. Regular screenings of BBC productions. (Same as Theater 212). Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. Note: This course fulfills the pre-1800 literature requirement for English majors.
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Spring 2007. DAVID COLLINGS.
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Every other year. Fall 2007. ANN KIBBIE. A critical study of Milton's major works in poetry and prose, with special emphasis on Paradise Lost. Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. Note: This course fulfills the pre-1800 literature requirement for English majors.
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Fall 2006. AARON KITCH. Traces the explosion of popular drama in England between the construction of the first permanent London theater in 1576 and parliamentary closure of English theater in 1642. Pays special attention to the plots that audiences liked best-revenge, war, the accumulation of wealth, marriage, and adultery - and the monarchs, citizens, merchants, and clowns who enacted them on the stage. Explores how popular genres like revenge tragedy, domestic tragedy, and city comedy fulfilled political and cultural desires of the age. Also examines questions of staging and the professional rivalry between some of the most memorable playwrights in English drama, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Elizabeth Cary, and Thomas Middleton. (Same as Theater 223.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. Note: This course fulfills the pre-1800 literature requirement for English majors.
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Every other year. Spring 2007. AARON KITCH.
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Spring 2007. PETER COVIELLO. (See First-Year Seminar Clusters.)
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Every other year. Spring 2007. ANN KIBBIE. An overview of the development of the theater from the re-opening of the playhouses in 1660 to the end of the eighteenth century, with special emphasis on the emergence of new dramatic modes such as Restoration comedy, heroic tragedy, "she-tragedy," sentimentalcomedy, and opera. Other topics include the legacy of Puritan anxieties about theatricality; the introduction of actresses on the professional stage; adaptations of Shakespeare on the Restoration and eighteenth-century stage; other sites of public performance, such as the masquerade and the scaffold; and the representation of theatricality in the eighteenth-century novel. (Same as Theater 230.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. Note: This course fulfills the pre-1800 literature requirement for English majors.
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Every other year. Fall 2006. ANN KIBBIE. Explores the representation of private life in the poetry and non-fiction prose of the period (including diaries, private journals, public and private letters, and biographical sketches), with an emphasis on the emergence of the modern author. Works include selections from the diary of Samuel Pepys, the autobiographical poetry of Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travel letters, Lord Chesterfield's letters of advice to his illegitimate son, theautobiography of Olaudah Equiano, selections from Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets, and James Boswell's London Journal. Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. Note: This course fulfills the pre-1800 literature requirement for English majors.
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Spring 2007 . CELESTE GOODRIDGE.
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Every other year. Fall 2006. DAVID COLLINGS. Examines the rise of and reactions to the literature of radical sensibility in the wake of the French Revolution. Focuses upon such topics as apocalyptic lyricism, anarchism, non-violent revolution, and the critique of marriage, family, male privilege, and patriarchal religious belief, as well as the defense of tradition, attacks on radical thinking, and the depiction of revolution as monstrosity. Discusses poetic experimentation, innovations in the English novel, and the intersections between political writing and the Gothic. Authors may include Burke, Paine, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Opie, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley. (Same as Gender and Women's Studies 240.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English or Gender and Women's Studies.
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