ENGLISH 4RD3

RENAISSANCE DRAMA, EXCLUDING SHAKESPEARE

Undergraduate

An intensive study of transgression (economic, erotic, social and literary) in popular and elite drama by Shakespeare's contemporaries, including women writers. Seminar (two hours); …

Fall 2025 · Renaissance Drama · C01

Readings

Galatea
Lyly · Required
ISBN 9780719088056
Doctor Faustus: The B Text
Christopher Marlowe; Edited By · Required
ISBN 9781554811120
Etext Bell In Campo And The Sociable Companions - Permanent Access
Cavendish · Required
ISBN 9781770484184; 9781551112879

Fall 2025 · C01

An intensive study of transgression (economic, erotic, social and literary) in popular and elite drama by Shakespeare's contemporaries, including women writers. Seminar (two hours); …

Readings

Doctor Faustus: The B Text
Christopher Marlowe · 2013 · Required
Broadview Press · ISBN 9781554811120; 1554811120
Galatea
John Lyly · 2013 · Required
Manchester University Press · ISBN 9780719088056
Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions
Margaret Cavendish · 2002 · Required
Broadview Press · ISBN 9781551112879; 1551112876
Tamburlaine the Great (Part One)
Christopher Marlowe · Required
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Thomas Middleton · Required
The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd · Required
Love’s Victory
Mary Wroth · Required

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
Campus Store reading list ↗Fall 2025
Course outline / syllabus ↗Fall 2025
Some readings or course materials are supplied through Avenue to Learn; public bibliographic details may be incomplete. The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama , edited by Simon Barker and Hilary Hinds, Routledge, 2003, pp. 35-76. This text will be made available via the “eReserves” sub-module on Avenue to Learn. Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents , edited by Cerasano and Wynne-Davies, Routledge, 1995, pp. 91-126. This text will be made available via the “eReserves” sub-module on Avenue to Learn.