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May 13, 2024
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ENGL 3450 - Renaissance Literature (3) Credit Hours Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102 and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131 or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor This course explores the major authors of the Western world and the genres, themes and movements reflected in their works during the period from approximately the 15th to the 17th centuries. We will explore the literature of the period in the contexts of intellectual, historical, scientific and cultural developments such as the rise of humanism, the Reformation, metaphysics and scientific empiricism. Authors studied may include Ficino, Picco della Mirandola, Erasmus. Machiavelli, More, Bacon, Cervantes, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson, Descartes, Donne, Marlowe, Webster and Milton.
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