British Drama Post Shakespeare
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Overview
Subject area
ENGL
Catalog Number
B1975
Course Title
British Drama Post Shakespeare
Department(s)
Description
This course explores developments in British dramatic literature and the British stage across the two centuries following Shakespeare's death: from the period of the Restoration to that of the Romantics. We will read plays from a variety of genres (comedy, tragedy, heroic drama, opera, farce, Gothic melodrama), secondary sources on this drama's performance history and on the politics and culture of the theater during this time, and modern adaptations of some of these plays.
Academic Career
Graduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3