Università Roma Tre

This course provides an overview of Early Modern English literature through the study of a variety of texts by some of the most representative authors of the British canon. The course will focus on topics, contexts and textual strategies with a view to underlining the cultural reflection on the figure of the stranger / foreigner through the analysis and recurrence of binary oppositions such as man/woman, identity/otherness, us/them, black/white, culture/nature, here/there etc.. The texts will be examined through the methods provided by cultural, postcolonial and gender studies.

William Shakespeare, Othello
William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare The Tempest
William Shakespeare, Sonnets (a selection)

Anthology: a selection of additional texts will be provided by the teacher and posted on her website