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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
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Last Updated on MAR-30-2006
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