THE4001 Shakespearean Negotiations

Requisites

Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: BCAH or MSTA or BVAH

Synopsis

For the past thirty years, the study of Shakespearean drama and performance has been a prime location for a range of critical and theoretical debates. The aim of this course is to explore the plays of Shakespeare and other dramatists of the early modern period in relation to recent and current scholarly concerns. Topics and theoretical perspectives may include (but are not limited to) the following: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism; performance theory and theatricality; gender studies and queer theory; the' new' phenomenology and the early modern body-mind; medicine and disease; authorship, textuality and early modern print culture.

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