ENGL 356 - Renaissance

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The Early Modern era in England produced one of the richest epochs of literary production. The Renaissance was the period in which secular drama became a new genre of writing in England, literary theory saw its first English humanist defenses of poetry, and the English language was being crafted into its modern form. This course is an exploration of the poetry, prose and drama in the age of More, Spenser, Donne, Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton.