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Apr 28, 2024
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ENG 665B - Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama (3 units)
English dramatists from about 1660 to 1800 including, e.g., Wycherley, Congreve, Sheridan, Goldsmith.
Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
2. analyze late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century plays in their cultural and historical contexts.
3. develop strategies for reading and interpreting the drama written and/or staged in the long eighteenth century (1660-1800).
4. demonstrate familiarity with the major plays and playwrights of the long eighteenth century, and to describe the developments in the concept of “theater” in this period, including changes in performance venues, scenery, and production.
5. generate a bibliography of secondary sources for a major subject pertaining to drama in the long eighteenth century and to incorporate that secondary reading into an extended critical paper.
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