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Academic Year 2005/2006


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, focusing 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, ROMEO AND JULIET, OTHELLO
Anonymous, ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM
Heywood, WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS
Webster, DUCHESS OF MALFI
Middletown, WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN

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

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Research paper required.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

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

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-30-2006


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