Prerequisite or co-requisite: ENGL 202 or ENGL 200. Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments. Texts (available at the Word on Milton): Kinney, Arthur F. Many of these works provide purviews onto the cultural situation of early modern London that are rarely found in Shakespeare’s works.
We will study these plays as exemplars of swiftly-changing and varied theatrical tastes in the period. We will read twelve plays from the period, about one a week, including The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd), The Tragical History of Dr Faustus (Christopher Marlowe), Arden of Faversham (Anon), The Tragedy of Antony (Mary Sidney), The Shoemaker’s Holiday (Thomas Dekker), A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood), The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Francis Beaumont), A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (Thomas Middleton), The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster), Bartholomew Fair (Ben Jonson), The Changeling (Middleton and Rowley), and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (John Ford). Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (Broadview)Įvaluation: 25% mid-term test 25% final test 50% term paper (2,000-2,500 words).ĭescription: In this course we will survey the impressive yield of English Renaissance drama written by writers other than William Shakespeare.Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (Broadview).William Godwin, Caleb Williams (Broadview).Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (Broadview).Northanger Abbey (1817), also drafted in the 1790s, is a witty parody and reworking of Gothic fiction. Sense and Sensibility (1811), first drafted in the 1790s, responds to many eighteenth-century issues, as its title suggests.
We shall conclude with two of Jane Austen’s novels. We next turn to William Godwin’s Caleb Williams (1796), a powerful and complex novel written in response to government repression of the day. We shall then study an example of epistolary fiction: Frances Burney’s bestselling comic novel, Evelina (1778). From the 1760s, we shall explore the first Gothic novel: Horace Walpole’s pioneering The Castle of Otranto (1764). We shall begin in the 1750s with Samuel Johnson’s remarkable oriental tale, Rasselas (1759). Attention will be paid to gender issues, as well as to genre, style, and thematic concerns. "Someone Like You" is a popularly performed cover song, with the best-known versions byĭina Carroll, Vanessa L.Expected Student Preparation: Previous university-level course work in English.ĭescription: This course will study developments in the English novel from the mid-eighteenth century until the early 1800s. A remastered version has been included in the album, Still on Top - The Greatest Hits and it is one of the songs on Van Morrison's 2007 compilation album, Van Morrison at the Movies - Soundtrack Hits. This song was released again on two of Morrison's compilation albums in 2007. "Someone Like You" was recorded in the summer of 1987 at
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