Spring 2009

PERFORMING CLASS ON THE EARLY MODERN STAGE

Listed in: English, as ENGL-95

Faculty

Allison K. Deutermann (Section 05)

Description

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, new patterns of production and consumption enabled greater social mobility in England than previously had been possible. London’s theaters charted, participated in, and commented on these changes. This seminar considers representations of class on the early modern stage, paying particular attention to the ways in which it was physically coded onto the actors’ bodies. How do markers such as dress, accented speech, and gesture identify characters as country bumpkins or cosmopolitans, social climbers or born aristocrats? How indelible are these markers? Moving from the mid-sixteenth century through the 1630s, we will also ask how other categories of identity (for example, race and gender) intersect with and often contradict those of class in plays by Shakespeare, Dekker, Marlowe, Webster, and others. Requisite: One course in Renaissance literature, with a course in Renaissance drama encouraged. Spring semester. Visiting Professor Deutermann.

ENGL 95 - L/D

Section 05
Tu 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM CHAP 103
Th 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM CHAP 103

Offerings

2024-25: Not offered
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Other years: Offered in Spring 20092024-25: Not offered
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Other years: Offered in Fall 20082024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2008, Spring 2011, Fall 2013, Spring 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, January 2022, Spring 20222024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 20092024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010