The unit considers a broad range of Shakespeare's writings in relation to writings by his contemporaries and by his successors ? dramatists as well as non-dramatists. In doing so it examines how those texts at once represent and engage with issues and problems in the culture of early modern, or Renaissance, England. Those issues and problems include: issues of genre and of sexuality in verse of the 1590s; problems evoked in representations of tragic selfhood; problems associated with religious and political conflict; and problems arising from English portrayals both of England and of life outside it. -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Anthony Cousins
Prerequisites: 6cp in ENGL units at 200 level
