ENGLISH 4RL3 - Playing, Winning, Losing: Strategies of Power in Renaissance Literature

3 unit(s)

In this seminar we will examine the many textual faces of power, its creative and destructive force, in a wide variety of early modern works, ranging from Machiavellis famous discourse on political power, The Prince, to the challenge to male authority in Rachel Speght’s A Mouzell for Melastomus, the deployment of colonial power in Walter Raleigh’s The Discovery of Guiana, and the class satire of Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
Seminar (two hours); one term
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Level IV of an Honours program in English and Cultural Studies
Departmental permission required.