Fall 2025 Undergraduate English Courses

90      MW5   10538   BUCKLEY  ONLINE  For almost three thousand years, tragedy has been esteemed as the highest form of western art, the one form in which the ecstasy and the suffering of the human condition find full expression. For the Greeks, tragedy constituted a link to the divine, and throughout the millennia that have followed tragedy has served as a privileged lens through which to confront problems of history, social change, personal suffering, and even the nature of the self. If, as Hamlet...

01  CAC    TF3     10546    LEVAO    MU-111 This course will explore the first half of Shakespeare’s dramatic career, plays written by him during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, up until her death in 1603. Eight major works will represent the Folio's three genres of comedy, history, and tragedy and include some of the best-known, controversial, and fascinating works in English literature:  Romeo and Juliet, A The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two, Julius Caesar, Twelfth...

90    MW4  CAC     10550   BUCKLEY   ONLINE In this course we’ll survey the rich and varied dramatic literature of the nineteenth century, a period during which the stage was transformed first into a modern, popular institution and then into a radical countercultural art.  We’ll explore the many styles and modes of the era, including melodrama, romantic tragedy, realist and naturalist drama, and theater of the early avant-garde, and look at their relations to political and social change, their articulation...

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