Legacy Course Catalog
ENGL 633B - Early British Drama
Effectivity: | 08/20/2007 - 12/15/2007 @ Purdue West Lafayette Traditional |
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Credits: | 3 |
Instructional Types: | Lec |
Usually Offered: | fal spr sum |
Short Title: | Early British Drama |
Description: | This course examines a selection of early english plays and entertainments from the mystery cycles, through Robin Hood revels and Tudor interludes, to Shakespeare largely through the lense of carnivalesque criticism and counter-criticism. It will consider commentaries by Mikhail Bakhtin, Peter Stallybrass, and Umberto Eco, among others. Specific plays included are "The Towneley Second Shepherd's Play," "Mankind," "Robin Hood and the Friar," "Gammar Gurton's Needle," and "Twelfth Night." How do we define the carnivalesque? How does it manifest itself in early English drama? To what extent does it carry out a "safety-valve" function for those in power? To what extent is it orchestrated "from below" and an effective instrument of social protest and change? In conjunction with these and other related questions, we will examine aspects of the drama in performance. An oral presentation, several short essays and a semester-ending research paper are required. This course can be taken either for Medieval or Renaissance credit. |
School: | College Of Liberal Arts |
Department: | English |
Credit By Exam: | NO |
Repeatable Flag: | YES |
Temporary Flag: | YES |
Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
Honors Flag: | NO |
Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.