ENGL428X

Junior standing. For ENGL majors only. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Course intended primarily for students in English Honors Program. English majors with strong academic records may also apply. Permission from the Director of Honors required. This course will explore a seventeenth century global cultural economy, paying particular attention to what sorts of feelings accompany a developming global consciousness. We will investigate how England's commerical encounters with Africa, the Americas, the Mediterranean, and Asia influenced dramatic representations of religious and cultural "others", as well as portrayals of English cosmopolitans. While Shakespeare remains at the center of this course, we will discuss his plays in light of accounts of cross-cultural encounters and dramatists before and after who shaped our imagination globalization.