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Love and Death in the Renaissance: Reading the Early Modern Period 1450–1700

  • ENGL3603
  • Semester 2 (see Timetable)
  • 6 points
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This unit examines the literature of the period from 1450 to 1700 in its historical context. It studies representations of the concepts of love and death in the art of the period, scientific writings on the physiology of love and death and textual explorations of these themes by thinkers such as Plato, Ovid, Wyatt, Spenser, Philip and Mary Sidney, Queen Elizabeth I, Marlowe, Lanyer, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Marvell and Shakespeare. The unit examines the ways in which classical sources were revived and creatively utilised in the Renaissance, the concept of creative imitation, the political involvement of writers in affairs of state and religion and other aspects of the period of relevance... -- Course Website

Prerequisites: any Level 2 unit in English and Cultural Studies or MEMS2001 Classical Traditions and Transformations in Medieval and Early Modern Europe



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