ENGL 428

Fall 2022 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

British Drama, 1660-1800

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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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ENGL 428 class schedule data for fall 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	49200	Lecture-Discussion	1G	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	English Building	Markley, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: FA22 ENGL 428 British Drama, Robert Markley Restoration and Eighteenth-century Drama This course will cover some of the major works in British drama written between 1660 and 1720. We will pay particular attention to the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts of theatrical performance, and we will discuss the major issues that find on their way onto the London stage: sexual morality, the role of women in a patrilineal society, and the problems of empire, trade, and colonialism. Because the Restoration period (1660-1700) featured the popular and critical success of women dramatists, notably Aphra Behn and Susan Centlivre, and we will devote a good deal of attention to the ways in which these playwrights appropriated the conventions of the seemingly antifeminist genres of wit comedy. In addition to these women dramatists, we will read and discuss plays by George Etherege, Thomas Southerne, William Wycherley, Thomas Otway, Thomas Shadwell, and William Congreve. There will be two papers of critical analysis, a midterm, and a final examination. A word of caution: the comedy of the period is often explicitly sexual, and seduction, adultery, and libertine critiques of religion are commonplace. The tragedies we will read include scenes of torture, incest, sexual violence, and general bloodletting. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	49199	Lecture-Discussion	1U	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	English Building	Markley, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: FA22 ENGL 428 British Drama, Robert Markley Restoration and Eighteenth-century Drama This course will cover some of the major works in British drama written between 1660 and 1720. We will pay particular attention to the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts of theatrical performance, and we will discuss the major issues that find on their way onto the London stage: sexual morality, the role of women in a patrilineal society, and the problems of empire, trade, and colonialism. Because the Restoration period (1660-1700) featured the popular and critical success of women dramatists, notably Aphra Behn and Susan Centlivre, and we will devote a good deal of attention to the ways in which these playwrights appropriated the conventions of the seemingly antifeminist genres of wit comedy. In addition to these women dramatists, we will read and discuss plays by George Etherege, Thomas Southerne, William Wycherley, Thomas Otway, Thomas Shadwell, and William Congreve. There will be two papers of critical analysis, a midterm, and a final examination. A word of caution: the comedy of the period is often explicitly sexual, and seduction, adultery, and libertine critiques of religion are commonplace. The tragedies we will read include scenes of torture, incest, sexual violence, and general bloodletting. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.