ENG-311 Drama of Early Modern Europe
The late 16th and early 17th centuries witnessed
a flowering of professional theater not only in
England (to Anglophone readers the best known
example) but also in the city-states of
Renaissance Italy, in Golden Age Spain, and in
17th-Century France. By studying the playwrights
who helped produce this flowering, this course
will try to resituate Elizabethan and Jacobean
drama in its European context, considering
literary and theatrical traditions alongside
issues arising from the relationship of popular
to elite cultures, from socioeconomic change,
from the ideological and institutional
development of political absolutism, and from the
period's intense, varied, and contested religious
life. Authors may include Machiavelli, Tasso,
Lope de Vega, Calderon, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster,
Corneille, Racine, and Moliere.(Literature
Seminars)
Prerequisites: 200-level Introduction to Literary
Studies course (any version)