Renaissance Studies
Term 2
MWF, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The fractious Tudor courts will be the focus of this literary course: their politics, their religious wars, their romantic intrigues, and their colonialist pretensions. Henry VIII, Mary I, and Elizabeth I were focal points for most of the literature of this period, and we’ll spend the course examining the Tudor era’s reinvention of English literature within, and against, the Tudor royal circles. We’ll read love poems, comedies, travel-narratives, martyr-stories, satires and romances by Thomas Wyatt, William Shakespeare, Philip & Mary Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Katherine Parr and Elizabeth I herself. Group projects, workshops, and open discussion will characterize our work together.
