ATH 258 - Renaissance Drama

Course Units: 1

This class will explore how various Renaissance playwrights represented those on the margins of the dominant culture, particularly the malcontent or madman (Marlowe’s Jew of Malta; Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy; Marston’s The Malcontent), women (Middleton and Dekker’s The Roaring Girl, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, Ford’s ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore), the criminal (the anonymous Arden of Faversham), and sometimes the intersection of all three (Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair). Cross-Listed: EGL 208 CQ: HUL, HUM