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English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21L.703
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2014English
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Shakespeare “doth bestride the narrow world” of the English Renaissance “like a colossus,” leaving his contemporaries “walk under his large legs and peep about” to find themselves in “dishonourable graves.” This course aims in part to correct this grave injustice by surveying the extraordinary output of playwrights whose names have largely been eclipsed by their more luminous compatriot: Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Ford, among others.

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