Academic Calendar 2020/2021 - Bawdy Politics: Writing the Restoration
ENGL 3096 Bawdy Politics: Writing the Restoration
Prerequisites:
Six credits of 2000 level English (excluding ENGL 2001, ENGL 2002 and ENGL 2011).Antirequisites:
ENGL 3095Hours:
Three hours of lecture per week for one term.Credits:
3Description:
When the Earl of Rochester wrote of Charles II “His scepter and his prick are of a length, / And she may sway the one who plays with t’other,” he offered an explicit, but not uncommon, assessment of a wayward England in the 1670s. Through a selection of verse, prose, and drama students will explore the various hopes, disappointments, plots, and revolutions that followed the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660.