ENGL 416

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Topics in Brit Drama to 1660

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced topics course devoted to dramatic practice in the medieval and/or early modern British Isles.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary; Graduate students may repeat if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 416 class schedule data for fall 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	46736	Lecture-Discussion	1G	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	Lincoln Hall	Perry, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Sex, Vengeance & Tragedy Section Info: Topic Section 1G: Sex, Vengeance, and the Subjects of Tragedy Readers familiar only with Shakespeare will be surprised by the tonal complexity and ungenteel-seeming vitality of non-Shakespearean tragedy from the early modern period. Plays by writers like Marlowe, Kyd, Middleton, Ford, and Webster (among others) can be violent, philosophical, crude, satirical, grotesque, sophisticated, horrifying, and hilariously funny by turns, and sometimes all within the same scene. This course will examine the extraordinary experimental energies of early modern drama by focusing upon tragedies depicting the outrageously anti-social: the breaking of sexual taboo (which is in turn the violation of kindship and lineage and so understood as the erasure of patriarchal social order) and the pursuit of vigilante revenge (which is forbidden in the New Testament and imagined as a violation of social norms of communal justice). In learning to read and understand some of the period’s most willfully shocking tragedies, we will pay attention to the way they imagine sexual transgression and the need for vengeance as symptomatic of social breakdown: these are plays about the relationship between political power and subjectivity, as well as about the enfranchisement or otherwise of the political subject. They are also, and above all, wonderfully entertaining and superb to think with. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	30167	Lecture-Discussion	1U	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	Lincoln Hall	Perry, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Sex, Vengeance & Tragedy Section Info: Topic Section 1U: Sex, Vengeance, and the Subjects of Tragedy Readers familiar only with Shakespeare will be surprised by the tonal complexity and ungenteel-seeming vitality of non-Shakespearean tragedy from the early modern period. Plays by writers like Marlowe, Kyd, Middleton, Ford, and Webster (among others) can be violent, philosophical, crude, satirical, grotesque, sophisticated, horrifying, and hilariously funny by turns, and sometimes all within the same scene. This course will examine the extraordinary experimental energies of early modern drama by focusing upon tragedies depicting the outrageously anti-social: the breaking of sexual taboo (which is in turn the violation of kindship and lineage and so understood as the erasure of patriarchal social order) and the pursuit of vigilante revenge (which is forbidden in the New Testament and imagined as a violation of social norms of communal justice). In learning to read and understand some of the period’s most willfully shocking tragedies, we will pay attention to the way they imagine sexual transgression and the need for vengeance as symptomatic of social breakdown: these are plays about the relationship between political power and subjectivity, as well as about the enfranchisement or otherwise of the political subject. They are also, and above all, wonderfully entertaining and superb to think with. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.