CSCH 1015 SHAKESPEARE'S WORLD
It is London, 1592. Shakespeare's acting company, the Lord Strange's Men, is competing with Christopher Marlowe's rival acting company, the Admiral's Men, for the right to perform a play in the public theaters. Each company argues its case in front of Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council, her highest advisors, and the outcome has yet to be determined. Who will win the right to take the stage? This is not your ordinary English literature class. In this course, the classroom literally transforms into Shakespeare's sixteenth-century London, and students become Renaissance people in an elaborate game set in the past. Students will learn not only how to read and analyze Renaissance plays, including those by Shakespeare and Marlowe, but also how the Renaissance thought about poetry and theatre, public life and morality, politics and philosophy. Students will literally embody the questions and ideas of Shakespeare's World.
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