ENG 303B RELIGION/OTHERNESS REN DRAMA

An examination of how dramatists have engaged, explored, and unsettled religious beliefs by presenting imagined "others" such as Jews, Muslims, and Moors, as well as supernatural beings like devils, witches, and ghosts to their audiences. Readings, which include Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta, Hamlet, Othello, and The Tempest, are considered in the context of contemporary religious discourses.