Drama: The Greatest Hits

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Prerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. This course introduces students to some of history's most famous dramas both as literary forms and as cultural expressions. Plays will therefore be considered for themselves-for their genre, structure, and language-as well as for their social function, in an effort to better understand the complex communal values, settings, and crises which produced them. Students will read and discuss a wide variety of well-known plays from ancient Greece and Rome, the early modern English stage, and modern and contemporary culture. This course satisfies the English core requirement for the Literature in English area.