Re-Imagining the Plot in Selected Shakespearean Tragedies

3 credits · Graduate

Starting with Ben Jonson’s Aristotelian account of plot -- “it behoves the action in a tragedy to be let grow, till the necessity ask a conclusion” -- this course explores the ways in which some of Shakespeare’s tragedies adhere to or depart from the principles of Aristotle’s Poetics. FORMATS: Seminar