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4.00 Credits
A study of the writing and other popular art forms of Renaissance England, with attention to the newly articulated stress on self and the emergence of Tudor England as a world power. Alternate years. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 316 only).
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4.00 Credits
This course will trace the evolution of lyric forms, subject, and attitudes from their medieval beginnings to the late eighteenth century. We will examine the social and historical origins of particular forms (the sonnet, for example) and the resurgence of earlier lyric traditions in the poetry of nineteenth and twentieth century poets like Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 318 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of Shakespeare's work in different genres drawn from the full range of his career as poet and playwright and, occasionally, of one or two plays by his contemporaries. Plays are treated both as literary texts requiring close reading and as scripts designed for theatrical performance in public playhouses of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Attention paid throughout to questions of gender and sexuality, authority in family and state, and drama as social expression. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 320 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of the reproduction of Shakespeare's plays on film and television and of the appropriation of Shakespeare's plays by modern playwrights, concentrating on the most adventurous recent work in these genres. Particular emphasis throughout on strategies of adaptation, substitution, and transformation. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 322 only).
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4.00 Credits
A topically or historically oriented, performancecentered study of the cultural, social, political, and economic conditions that informed the composition, structure, and production of no more than two plays of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, requiring handson research on such subjects as gender, marriage, and sexuality crime and punishment licensing and censorship and legal and social status. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 324 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of Milton's major works, especially Paradise Lost, and his impact on later poets, most notably the visionary and revolutionary strain in English Romanticism. Other readings will focus on contexts for understanding this impact, such as the Bible, epic traditions, civil war and sectarian strife in seventeenthcentury England, colonialism, gender, and psychology. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 326 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of the English theatrical practices from the Stuart Restoration in 1660 through the Licensing Act of 1737, emphasizing social history and encompassing literary and performance analysis of plays, acting, theatre architecture, audience, management practices, and government regulatory policies. Likely topics include the relationship between theatre and politics, the shift from aristocratic to bourgeois cultural forms, constructions of nationality and sexuality, and England's emergence as a superpower. Meets general academic requirement W.
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4.00 Credits
A study of some of the major works of the great age of the novel. From Jane Austen at the turn of the century to Thomas Hardy at its end, English novelists repeatedly explore such issues as the growth out of childhood fantasy into sobering adulthood, the difficulties bred of class differences, the impact of industrialism on personal and social development, and the plight of women trying to find a place in the world. Different versions of the course may center on any one of these issues. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 330 only).
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4.00 Credits
Explores the English Romantic movement as it develops in the work of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Felicia Hemans, and the Shelleys. Among other works, readings will include "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " Frankenstei n, and a more contemporarnovel influenced by the Romantic writers. The course may also include dramatic readings and performances by guest artists. Attention will be paid to the relationship between the visual and verbal arts in poets like Blake and Keats. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 333 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of the impact in nineteenthcentury English culture of the Industrial Revolution, the waning of religion, and changes in gender roles as constructed and evoked by novels, essays, and poems by such writers as Dickens, Stoker, Wilde, Ruskin, Carlyle, Arnold, Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rosettis, and other PreRaphaelites, along with the painting and decorative arts produced by members of the PreRaphaelites movement. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 335 only).
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