English 190
Research Seminar: Shakespeare and Company
| Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Fall 2019 | Landreth, David
|
MW 1:30-3 | 305 Wheeler |
Book List
Bevington, David: English Renaissance Drama: a Norton Anthology; Gurr, Andrew: Playgoing in Shakespeare's London; Shakespeare, William: The Norton Shakespeare: Essential Plays and Sonnets (3rd ed.)
Description
In this research seminar, we'll be considering Shakespeare, his playwriting rivals, his actorly partners, and their audiences as participants in the burgeoning entertainment industry of early modern London. We'll attend to the conditions and possibilities of performance on different stages; we'll trace the development of theatrical genres across the work of our playwrights; we'll situate the theater in the fabric of urban experience; and we'll consider what makes each of our plays extraordinary as well as what they seem to have in common. We will learn to work with early modern evidence for the theater's context as well as with modern secondary sources, and to marshal research into a complex and wide-ranging critical argument.
This section of English 190 can fulfill the pre-1800 requirement of the English major; it does NOT fulfill the Shakespeare requirement. Students should have fulfilled the Shakespeare requirement before enrolling in the class.
Please click here for more information about enrollment in English 190.
Please click here for more information about enrollment in English 190.
Other Recent Sections of This Course
fall, 2022 |
||
190/1 |
||
190/3 |
||
190/4 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/6 |
Research Seminar: Crisis and Culture: The 1930s, 1970s, and post-2008 in Comparative Perspective |
|
190/7 |
||
190/8 |
||
190/9 |
||
spring, 2022 |
||
190/1 |
||
190/2 |
||
190/4 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/6 |
||
190/7 |
Research Seminar: Race and Travel: Relative Alterity in Medieval Times and Places |
|
190/8 |
||
fall, 2021 |
||
190/1 |
||
190/2 |
Research Seminar: Literature on Trial: Romanticism, Law, Justice |
|
190/3 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/8 |
||
190/10 |
||
190/11 |
||
spring, 2021 |
||
190/1 |
Research Seminar: Literary Collaboration: Samuel Coleridge and William and Dorothy Wordsworth |
|
190/2 |
||
190/3 |
||
190/4 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/6 |
Research Seminar: Black Postcolonial Cultures: Real and Imagined Spaces |
|
190/7 |
||
190/8 |
||
190/9 |
||
fall, 2020 |
||
190/1 |
||
190/2 |
||
190/3 |
||
190/4 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/8 |
||
190/9 |
||
190/10 |
||
spring, 2020 |
||
190/1 |
||
190/2 |
||
190/3 |
||
190/4 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/6 |
||
190/7 |
||
190/8 |
||
190/9 |
||
190/10 |
||
Back to Semester List
University of California, Berkeley
English Department
322 Wheeler Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720-1030
general phone: 510-642-3467
office hours: M-F, 10-12 and 1-4
©UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT