Flaunting: Extreme Fashion on the Early Modern Stage
CHUM 301
Fall 2022
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01
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| Crosslisting:
ENGL 352 |
| Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate, Queer Studies |
Frilly ruffs and cuffs, bulging codpieces, towering "chopines" (platform shoes)--oh my! This course considers the early modern stage as an engine of fashion and the forms of sartorial ostentation to which it gave rise. How did fashion contribute the rise of the commercial theater? How did clothing shape gender, sexuality, class and race in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, which were performed by adult men and gender-fluid, "boy" actors? How did sartorial excess and the sumptuary laws that sought to control it affect social status and mobility during the rise of capitalism? And how were early modern fashion trends updated in later productions of these plays? |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Shakespeare THE TAMING OF THE SHREW AND TWELFTH NIGHT, or WHAT YOU WILL
Middleton and Dekker THE ROARING GIRL
Beaumont and Fletcher LOVE'S CURE
James Bromley CLOTHING AND QUEER STYLE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA
Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass RENAISSANCE CLOTHING AND THE MATERIALS OF MEMORY
Amanda Bailey, FLAUNTING: STYLE AND THE SUBVERSIVE MALE BODY IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND
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Examinations and Assignments:
Class presentation; reading response posts on Moodle; two short creative/critical assignments; final research paper |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Contributes to fulfillment of ENGL major requirements: Lit. History 1, British Lit., elective |
| Instructor(s): Korda,Natasha Times: ...W... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: CFH106; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 8 | JR major: 8 | | |
| Seats Available: 1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: X | FR: X |
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