2024-2025 Catalog 
    
    Dec 26, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

LIT062 CM - Shakespeare’s Tragedies

This course will treat the development of Shakespeare’s tragic dramas and explore the nature of tragedy. We will read seven works by Shakespeare and three by his contemporaries Marlowe, Tourneur, and Webster. Shakespeare’s contribution to tragedy will be studied partly in the context of ancient and medieval as well as Renaissance conceptions of tragedy.

Offered: Every other year

Credit: 1

Course Number: LIT 062 CM