A study of a selection of 16th-century poetry, drama and prose, together with other art forms and cultural discourses that contributed to early modern ideologies and constructions of gender, the body and the state. The texts to be studied include Thomas More’s Utopia; Elizabeth Joscelin’s The Mother’s Legacy to her Unborn Child; poetry by Shakespeare and by English and continental women writers; selections from Spenser’s Faerie Queene; Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus; and Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam. Exclusions EN353*.
