ENG-308 Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Shakespeare, Johnson
This course will study the three most influential
dramatists of the Elizabethan and Jacobean
theater, each of whom responded complexly to the
example of his predecessor. In addition to
reading some of the plays and poems by each man
that respond to, or elicit response from, one of
the others, we will also consider the social,
theatrical, and literary milieu which made such a
convergence of talent possible.(Literature
Seminars)
Prerequisites: 200-level Introduction to Literary
Studies course (any version).