Shakespeare's London
Location: Saint Mary's University, Loyola Room 178, Tuesdays & Thursdays,1:00pm to 2:15pm
Start Date: 9/3/2025
End Date: 12/20/2025
Enrollment opens: 8/1/2025
Shakespeare's London
Synopsis
How could William Shakespeare, a glovemaker’s son from Stratford Upon Avon, write such astonishing plays and poetry? Part of the answer lies in the history of London and this course explores intersections between Shakespeare’s life and art in the nation’s cosmopolitan capital, the fastest growing city in Europe, between the 1580s and the 1610s.Course Overview
Topics for close analysis include theatres and theatregoers, race and colonization, law and litigation, gender, literary authorship and the topicality and historical contexts of particular Shakespeare plays.
Instructor
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Tim StrettonProfessor Tim Stretton is a Professor and former Chair of the History Department at Saint Mary’s University with History and Law degrees from Adelaide University and a PhD from Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has published widely on the history of women, law, litigation and literature. Works include Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England (Cambridge University Press, 1998), ‘Contract, Debt Litigation and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice’, Adelaide Law Review (2010) and (with Krista Kesselring) Marriage, Separation & Divorce in England 1500-1700 (Oxford University Press, 2022). |