All art is the accomplice of love.
Take love away and there is no longer art. This intertwining of the aesthetic and erotic will be our focus as we examine the visions and permutations of courtship and marriage, love and desire that have inspired major European and American playwrights from the Renaissance to the present. Our plays will range from the high Shakespearean through Restoration and 18th-century comedy and tragedy, to modern and contemporary symbolic, poetic, and expressionistic drama. Meets critical perspectives requirement in Humanities.