ENGL40413

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL/WRIT/CRWT course. The prose writers, dramatists, and poets of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England in relation to the cultural circumstances influencing and being influenced by their works. Topics may include the prospect and enactment of censorship; the centrality of the patronage system; courts and courtiers; changing views of monarchy and obedience; religious controversy; issues of gender, ethnicity, and class; literature and science; pseudo-nonfictional strategies; adaptations of the bible, history, and mythology; and early book production and circulation.