2002-2003 Theme:
Early Modern Women

The focus for the year: women as subjects, actors, and writers in England and America, 1500-1800. This year, we are exploring the concept of embodiment as it relates to women as creators, subjects, and consumers of British, Continental, and early American cultures. How has our understanding of the association between the body and women been complicated by recent critical investigations into the female body in culture and domesticity? Topics may include literature, history, cultural studies, and art history.

2002-2003 Events


Theme-Related Courses

Fall 2002

ENGL 101S | Seminar for English Literature from Medieval to 1650: Norton Women (Undergraduate)
This one-unit honors seminar for students in English 101 will be devoted to reading and discussing the medieval and Renaissance women writers who appear in The Norton Anthology of English Literature. The course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center’s theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women’s writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic.

ENGL 105AS | Seminar on Shakespeare, Poems and Earlier Plays: Shakespeare’s Women (Undergraduate)
This one-unit honors seminar for students in English 105AS will focus on the women in Shakespeare’s plays as well as the women who played Shakespeare’s characters. The course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center’s theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women’s writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic. The course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center’s theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women’s writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic.

Winter 2003

ENGL 157 | English Renaissance Drama: Images of Women in English (Undergraduate)
This course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center’s theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women’s writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic.

ENGL 197 | Upper-Division Seminar: Women Writers, 1550-1700 (Undergraduate)
This course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center’s theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women’s writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic.

ENGL 265 | Early Modern Women Writers, 1500-1760 (Graduate)
The course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center’s theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women’s writing.

Spring 2003

ENGL 197 | Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Poetics of Ecstasy and Rapture (Undergraduate)
The course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center’s theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women’s writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic.


Links

Women Writers Project

Early Modern Authors

Aphra Behn:
The Aphra Behn Page
Selected Poetry of Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn: Bedford Drama Site

Elizabeth Carey:
Tomb of Elizabeth Carey

Katherine Phillips:
Katherine Phillips: Biography
Katherine Phillips: Bibliography
Katherine Philips: Representative Poetry Online

Isabella Whitney:
Poems
Lady Bountiful or Fallen Woman?

Lady Mary Wroth:
Lady Mary Wroth: General Information
Wroth on the Web
“The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania” and “Pamphilia to Amphilanthus”
Wroth Bibliography
Review of Lady Mary Wroth: Poems. A Modernized Edition.

Restoration Actresses

Anne Bracegirdle:
Anne Bracegirdle biography
Bracegirdle’s grave
Bracegirdle portraits: National Portrait Gallery

Elizabeth Barry:
Elizabeth Barry: biography

Nell Gwyn:
Derek Parker’s Biography
The Mistresses of Charles II
Poem: “Nell Gwynne’s Looking-glass”

Actors and Actresses General Pages:
Actors and Actresses, 1660-1737
Players who died acting


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