ENGL 009G. First-Year Seminar: Comedy

This course covers a range of comic dramas and comic performances. It will introduce key theories about comedy as a genre and comic performance as a cultural practice. We will also work intensively on expository writing and revision. Likely texts include films, plays by Plautus, Shakespeare, Behn, Wilde, and Churchill; and materials on minstrelsy, genre theory, gender, and performance studies.
Humanities.
Writing course.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: English Literature
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature

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