Tuesday, August 30

• Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, Acts 1 and 2

Thursday, September 1

• Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, Acts 3 and 4

Secondary Sources:

• Carla Mazzio, “Staging the Vernacular: Language and Nation in Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy”

• Emily Stockard, “Nationhood as Illusion in The Spanish Tragedy”

• Eugene T. Hill, “Revenge Tragedy”

Tuesday, September 27

• Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam, Acts 1-3

Thursday, September 29

• Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam, Acts 4-5

Secondary Sources:

• Danielle Clarke, “‘This domestic kingdome or Monarchy’: Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam and the Resistance to Patriarchal Government”

• Laurie J. Shannon, “The Tragedy of Mariam: Cary’s Critique of the Terms of Founding Social Discourses,” English Literary Renaissance 24.1 (1994): 135-53

Tuesday, October 25

• Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Acts 1-3

Thursday, October 27

• Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Acts 4-5

Secondary Sources:

• Tracey Hill, "‘The Grocers Honour’ or, Taking the City Seriously in The Knight of the Burning Pestle." Early Theater, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2017, pp. 159-178.

• Laurie E. Osborne, "Female Audiences and Female Authority in the Knight of the Burning Pestle." Exemplaria, Vol 3, No. 2, 1991, pp. 491-517.

Tuesday, November 15

• John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Acts 1-3

Thursday, November 17

• John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Acts 4-5

Secondary Sources:

• Emily Bartels, “Strategies of Submission: Desdemona, the Duchess, and the Assertion of Desire”

• Frank Whigham, “Sexual and Social Mobility in The Duchess of Malfi”