ENG 315, 316 - The Renaissance Imagination

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 316.
A study of the writing and other popular art forms of Renaissance England with attention to the newly articulated stress on self and the emergence of Tudor England as a world power. Texts include at least one Shakespeare play and plays by some of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, such as Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, poems and songs from the courts of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, and selections from Spenser’s epic poem, The Faerie Queene. We also give attention to sixteenth-century developments in music and the visual arts.