This course offers a trans-historical exploration of the sonnet form from its flourishing in the Early Modern period to its adaptation in the present.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/EN 3131 3.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4540 3.00 (Sonnet Cycles) was AS/EN 3131 3.00 (The Sonnet)
Selected plays by Shakespeare and other dramatists of the period, such as Christopher Marlowe, Mary Sidney, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and Mary Wroth as well as plays by the Roman writers who influenced them, such as Terence and Seneca.Course credit exclusion: AP/EN 3545 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4536 6.00 (Advanced Elizabethan & Jacobean […]
Examines Shakespearean texts not normally studied in undergraduate courses on Shakespeare. It also gives attention to some of the more significant theoretical trends in Shakespearean and early modern literary studies. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4535 6.00 was AS/EN 4185 6.00
Explores civic and court ceremonies of the Tudor and Stuart era. Particular attention is paid to the spectacular and shifting rituals of power as they are played out in royal entries, coronations, Lord Mayor's shows, and masques. Course credit exclusion: AP/EN 4531 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4531 3.00 was AS/EN 4186 3.00
A study of the drama of the English Renaissance including the literary, cultural and historical contexts in which the plays were produced. The theatrical performance of transgression is emphasized, as well as the marvellous, subversive and disruptive activities of supernatural figures. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4530 6.00 (Renaissance Theatre) was AS/EN 4184 6.00 (The […]
An introduction to the major poetry and selected prose of John Milton, featuring a reading of Paradise Lost that tracks the origins of this work in the Hebrew scriptures, Classical epic, and Renaissance humanism, as well as the history of the seventeenth century.Previously offered as: AP/EN 4523 6.00.
Through selected texts, this course explores Renaissance poetry. Please consult the departmental supplemental calendar for a detailed course description.Course credit exclusion: AP/EN 4520 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AK/EN 4336 6.00, AS/EN 4180B 6.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), AS/EN 4181 6.00. AP/EN 4520 3.00 is a 3.00 credit version of AP/EN 4520 […]
An exploration of representations of gender, and of heterosexual, homosexual and lesbian desire in a wide range of literary and visual texts from the Renaissance.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4180C 6.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), AS/EN 4182 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4516 6.00 was AS/EN 4182 […]
The course addresses the wide variety of literatures, in familiar and unfamiliar genres, produced by women writers under the influence of a century of extraordinary social and political upheaval. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4515 6.00 (Early Modern Women Writers) was AS/EN 4293 6.00 (17th-Century Women Writers)
Please consult the departmental supplemental calendar for a detailed course description.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4280B 6.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), AS/EN 4282 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4505 6.00 was AS/EN 4282 6.00