Shakespeare and the Renaissance
Term 2
MWF, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
In this course we’ll look at Shakespeare’s non-dramatic poetry: ‘Venus and Adonis,’ ‘The Rape of Lucrece,’ the sonnets, and ‘The Phoenix and the Turtle.’ Although the course is without drama in the sense of not including any plays, one of our concerns will be how the poems can be understood as dramatic statements. We’ll be particularly interested in the depiction of sexuality, the question of the importance of the visual in a non-visual medium, and the relationship of poetry to narrative.
