ENGL 335 English Renaissance
Advanced study of the poetry, drama, prose, fiction, and song of 16th century England, primarily works of the late Elizabethan era. With an eye always to the focal point of all Elizabethan circles, the Queen herself, students examine some notable models for success in court circles, study Elizabethan sonnet cycles, pastoral romance, revenge tragedy, and lyric comedy, and sample the literature of exploration and colonization. Authors include Hoby, Wyatt the Elder, the Sidney circle, Marlowe, Spenser, Kyd, Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Greene, Raleigh.