WMST 341 - Studies in the Renaissance

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

Intensive study of selected Renaissance texts and the questions they raise about their context and interpretation.

Topic for 2015/16a: Sex And The City In 1600: Gender, Marriage, Family, and Sexuality In Early Modern London. This course explores everyday life in the rapidly expanding early modern metropolis of London at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. We pay special attention to religious, social, legal as well as informal control mechanisms that influenced issues of gender, marriage, and sexuality in various layers of London society. We anchor our investigations in a handful of plays by Beaumont, Dekker, Jonson, Marston, Middleton, and Shakespeare, but also explore ballads, homilies, conduct books, legal and travel narratives, pamphlets, treatises, works by female authors, and other literary and non-literary texts. Mr. Márkus.

One 2-hour period.