2011-12 Pomona College Catalog

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ENGL 155 PO - Shakespeare: The Tragedies and Romances

CrsNo ENGL155 PO

When Offered: Last offered fall 2007.

Instructor(s): Staff

An examination of Shakespeare’s later plays, with emphasis on traditional and newly emerging ideas about political, religious and gender relationships, including the analogy between family and state and alternative notions of contract and consent. The course considers how the literary genres of tragedy and romance can perform political critique and imagine political reform.