This course focuses on drama written by Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Classes center around careful study of individual plays.
And we sort through the plays' depiction of the proper relations between ruler and subject, husband and wife, parents and children, and European and non- European characters. Readings include plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, Cary, Dekker, Ford, Heywood, Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe, Middleton, Shakespeare, and Webster. May be used to fulfill the upper-level writing requirement.