Teague, Frances
F 1 :25 PM
Fine Arts 0310
Seminar: Shakespeare and Contemporaries in Performance
THE 8400 / ENGL 8300 CRN 25909 /53071
Fran Teague, Class meets F 1:25-4:25, Fine Arts room 310.
This seminar will explore an unanswered puzzle about early modern performances. In the 16th and 17th centuries (give or take a bit) playwrights and performers did astonishing things on stage that continue to move, enlighten, and entertain audiences to this day. Was that global synchronicity an illusion or coincidental? Was it driven in large part by European conquest and the start of colonialism? Did the advent