MIT OpenCourseWare
English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare
- Instructor
- Prof. Shankar Raman
- Term
- Fall 2003
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 12 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21L.703 English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare, Fall 2003, Prof. Shankar Raman — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
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- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Readings
9 files
- Session 9 · Machiavelli. Discourses on the first Decade of Titus Livius. 1636. Agnew… Download
- by Philip Stubbes (stubbes_anatomy.pdf) Download
- Epistle to Oxford and Cambridge in Volpone by Ben Jonson (epistle_jonson.pdf) Download
- “The Complaint and Lamentation of Mistresse Arden.” Download
- “An Homily of Marriage.” Download
- By Thomas Heywood (heywood_apolog.pdf) Download
- Wheeler, John. From A Treatise of Commerce. Edited by George Burton Hotchkiss. NY: New York University Press, 1931. Download
- From Richard Hakluyt's "Principal Navigations." (hak_prinav.pdf) Download
- . “Divers Voyages.” Download
Assignments
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Shankar Raman, 21L.703 English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare, Fall 2003.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2003 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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