The course begins with the Quem Quaeritis trope and the development of drama in its religious and liturgical settings. It proceeds from this development through an examination of the medieval cycle plays, moralities, and early Tudor comedies. The course continues with a study of Elizabethan and Jacobean comedy and tragedy and its religious, classical, and folk backgrounds, considers the closing of the theaters in 1643 and the reappearance of theatrical entertainment with the Restoration in 1660. The course continues with a consideration of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century comedy and tragedy and closes with brief examination of Romantic “closet” drama. [AREA 2]
ENG 215: The Drama
Class Program