EGL 208 - Renaissance Drama

Course Units: 1.0

(Winter: Jenkins) Shakespeare and Marlowe were the Beatles-Stones, Red Sox-Yankees, everybody else-Kanye of their day: moral opposites and aesthetic rivals, but also mutual inspirations and at times even collaborators. Marlowe was the dynamic bad boy, drawn to dark characters mirroring his own troubled soul; Shakespeare, the reclusive genius, who worked in more subtle ways to delineate human behavior and challenge existing power structures. We’ll see how they together created one of the world’s most dynamic literary forms, modern English drama, and how that drama, along with the drama of their rivalry, continues to inform our own ideas about art and its cultural power. Cross-Listed: ATH Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC