Early Drama

3 units

This unit is concerned with English and European drama and spectacle from late Roman theatre onwards: primarily in England, but with comparative material from France and Italy. The chronological span of the course will end at about 1600; the working assumption is that there is no clean break between 'medieval' and 'Renaissance' drama, but that the theatres and scripts of the late sixteenth century should be understood as developing out of, as well as departing from, earlier theatrical traditions and practices.