Staging Race in the Early Modern Theatre

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

This course considers early modern plays in conjunction with insights from the field of premodern critical race studies to explore the role that the English commercial theatre industry played in establishing, perpetuating, and occasionally challenging emerging notions of racial difference in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. Prerequisite: One of ENGL 2123H, 2151H, 2152Y/2153H, or 3153H.