Literature Resource Center with MLA International Bibliography

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Literature Resource Center with MLA
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OneFile California Academic Librarians Gale
Training - March 2003 Peg Bessette, Literature
Product Manager
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Gender and Power in Seventeenth Century
Comedy Women in 17th-century England were at a
disadvantage in relation to men because of a lack
of educational and vocational opportunities, a
marriage system in which dowries and arranged
marriage limited freedom of choice and masculine
ideology proclaimed husbands the head of the
household, and a double standard of sexual
morality that allowed men license but demanded
chastity from women. Nevertheless, gender roles
were the subject of lively negotiation in the
period immediately before and after the English
civil war, and the new commercial theater of the
late 16th and early 17th century capitalized on
the interest in the balance of power between men
and women by staging examples of assertive and
independent women. Moreover, in the Restoration,
the innovation of women actresses expanded the
role of women in drama and made their parts more
equal. We will examine power relations between
men and women in seventeenth century comedy,
exploring how attempts at male dominance or
sexual conquest are challenged by female
assertiveness and wit and considering whether the
scope allowed to female characters is genuine or
subtly qualified. Shakespeare, The Taming of the
Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing Dekker, The
Shoemakers Holiday Jonson
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Travel and Colonialism in Renaissance Drama This
class will examine Renaissance theatres
obsession with the world at large, with new
journeys and travels and the ways in which these
represented the possibilities of trade,
colonialism, and other forms of cross-cultural
encounters. We will reflect upon the ways in
which these encounters changed existing English
perceptions of women and of cultural and racial
difference. We will read about 8 plays Marlowes
Tamburlaine, Shakespeares Othello, The Merchant
of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest,
Massingers The Renegado, Fletchers The Island
Princess and Richard Bromes The Antipodes. In
addition we will watch some films, and read
critical essays.
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