ENGL 398

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Honors Seminar III

Credit: 3 hours.

Major British, American, and Anglophone authors. Each seminar considers one or two major authors.

May be repeated. Prerequisite: A 3.33 grade-point average or consent of the English Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Restricted to English and Rhetoric majors.

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ENGL 398 class schedule data for spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32117	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -12:50PM	W	123 English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Shakespearean Audiences Section Info: Topic Section D: Shakespearean Audiences, 1600 to 1623 By 1600, London?s new commercial theaters were not just attracting crowds to their plays, but specifically writing plays that reflected on what it meant to attract crowds. This course meets the Shakespeare requirement, and most of the plays we?ll read are by Shakespeare, but our focus will be on the audiences these plays engaged, redressing the long critical neglect of the audience function in later Shakespeare. For historical and material perspective on those audiences? experiences, we?ll situate our seven plays in three distinct literate practices of the period: attending live performances (based on playwright?s scripts); reading printed plays; and recognizing plays as adapted from non-dramatic sources. We?ll also read period records of playgoers, their neighbors, and their critics, seeking details about early playgoing as a distinctly commercial and urban practice that blurred supposedly rigid gender, sexuality, and national identities. A recurring theme will be how period drama allows players and playgoers to reflect on their mutual responsibilities and differences, both in theatrical space and in the social spaces of household, metropolis, nation, and global exchange. We too will participate in various literate practices surrounding drama, including attending and improvising performances, examining early printed books, and testing various theories of early modern community. TEXTS: McDonald, Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (2nd edition); individual play editions to be announced; articles on e-reserve.