ENGL 319 - Shakespeare and Company

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2013 and alternate years

Prerequisites: ENGL 299. Focusing on the repertory and working conditions of the two play companies with which he was centrally involved, this course examines plays by Shakespeare and several of his contemporary collaborators and colleagues (Jonson, Middleton, Fletcher). Attentive to stage history and the evolution of dramatic texts within print culture, students consider the degree to which Shakespeare was both a representative and an exceptional player in Renaissance London’s “show business.” Pickett.