Specialization - Bawdy Politics: Writing the Restoration
ENGL 3096 Bawdy Politics: Writing the Restoration
Prerequisites:
Six credits of 2000 level ENGL (excluding
ENGL 2001,
ENGL 2011) or any 45 credits
completed (excluding ENGL 1501, ENGL 1502,
ENGL 2001,
ENGL 2011).
Antirequisites:
ENGL 3095
Hours:
Three hours of lecture per week for one term.
Credits:
3
Description:
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.