ENGL 428

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Focused study of the major male and female playwrights who wrote between 1660 (the reopening of the theaters after the Interregnum) and roughly 1800. Particular attention will be devoted to the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts of theatrical performance, and to the major issues dealt with on the London stage: sexual morality, the role of women in a patrilineal society, and the problems of empire, trade, and colonialism.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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