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Academic Year 2002/2003

Contesting Marriage in Early Modern England
ENGL 271 SP

This course examines the struggle to define and regulate marriage and sexuality in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focussing on the emergence of modern marriage and marriage and its doubles, broken nuptials and prostitution.

MAJOR READINGS

Chaucer, WIFE OF BATH'S PROLOGUE AND TALE
Shakespeare: TAMING OF THE SHREW, MERCHANT OF VENICE, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, OTHELLO
Anonymous, ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM
Heywood, WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS
Webster, DUCHESS OF MALFI
Middletown, WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN
Milton, Paradise Lost (Selections)

Selections from sixteenth- and seventeenth- century conduct books, sermons, letters, pamphlets, and other non-literary sources.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two papers.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course meets the English department's pre-1800 requirement.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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