Spring 2023

ENGLISH 114A 001 - LEC 001

English Drama

David Landreth

Jan 17, 2023 - May 05, 2023

Tu, Th

03:30 pm - 04:59 pm

Physics Building 2

Class #:30921

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through English

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0

Enrolled: 63

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 63

Waitlist Max: 10

No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week.

Other classes by David Landreth

In this class, we'll study the roots and the flowering of England's greatest and most peculiar art form, the public drama. We'll begin with the communal, participatory spectacles of the medieval era, the "mystery plays" that drew Biblical history into the present day. We'll consider how these medieval, popular precedents interacted with elite study of Greek and Roman comedy and tragedy on the first professional stages. And we'll see how the great rivalry of Marlowe and Shakespeare transformed those elements to create gigantic new possibilities for the art of theater. This class satisfies the pre-1800 requirement for the English major. It does not fulfill the Shakespeare requirement.

Class Notes

Book List:

anon.: York Mystery Plays; Everyman; Arden of Faversham
Kyd, Thomas: The Spanish Tragedy
Lyly, John: Galatea
Marlowe, Christopher: Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1; The Jew of Malta; Edward II; Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare, William: Richard III; A Midsummer.. show more