| Course Title: Advanced Topics in English: 'The World's a Stage: Early Modern Drama, Spatial Assemblages, and Cultural Geography' |
| Start Date: 01/23/2023 End Date: 05/08/2023 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2023 |
| Description: Spatial representation onstage centers the discourse in which plays, contemporary surveying manuals, sermons, and conduct books orbit. We will read plays and put them in context with ideas about space and setting that intersect with contemporary ideas like assemblages, taskscapes, and the formation of cultural geography. This may beget questions like: how do dramatic representations of space shape ideological expressions of politics, race, and economics? How might we trace the historical imprint upon contemporary performances or readings? Literary analysis emerges as the principal method for connecting drama to political, cultural, racial, and economic ideas that structure our ways of thinking and deeply affect perceptions of hierarchy and value. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Gregory Sargent | gsargent@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/23/2023 - 05/08/2023 | Seminar | Monday and Wednesday | 10:00AM - 11:15AM | SHTK - Shattuck Hall | 203 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in English and/or FMT. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| ENGL-382EM-01 The World's a Stage |
| FMT-330EM-01 The World's a Stage |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 15 | Available: 3 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Author: Middleton, Thomas Copyright: 2014 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781408144558 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing: New Mermaids |
Required | 12.55 |
| Title: The Knight of the Burning Pestle Author: Beaumont, Francis Copyright: 2014 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781408144107 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing: New Mermaids |
Required | 12.55 |
| Title: A Woman Killed with Kindness Author: Heywood, Thomas Copyright: 2014 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781408139325 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing: New Mermaids |
Required | 12.55 |
| Title: The Alchemist Author: Jonson, Ben Copyright: 2015 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781408144718 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing: New Mermaids |
Required | 13.45 |
| Title: Three Renaissance Travel Plays Author: Parr, Anthony Copyright: 2000 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780719058004 Publisher: Manchester University Press |
Required | 23.95 |
| Title: Measure for Measure Author: Shakespeare, William Copyright: 2017 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780143131731 Publisher: Penguin Classics: Pelican Shakespeare |
Required | 10.00 |
| Title: Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays Author: Gibbons, Brian Copyright: 2014 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781472573865 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing: New Mermaids |
Required | 12.55 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |