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ENGL-139-01 Shakespeare's Exotic Romances
Spring only
From puckish sprites to island savages, from man-eating bears to speaking statues, Shakespeare’s plays are populated with otherworldly or extraordinary elements that we might term exotic. Interestingly, most of these examples of exoticism occur within the context of romance, understood in two primary senses: as a genre encompassing Shakespeare’s last four plays, and as a gendered narrative trajectory of the knight-wins-damsel variety. Rather than simply survey his last plays, this course will try to deconstruct that generic category by drawing connections to two earlier plays and asking how Shakespeare makes exotic the conventions of romance. There will be a strong theoretical/critical component, as well as some archival research. Primary texts may include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, A Winter’s Tale, Pericles, and The Tempest.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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