Just a note to say that you can now find my Summer 2025 courses on the OLLI page of this website.
The plays to be covered in “Shakespeare’s Contemporaries: Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster” are as follows:
Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
Ben Jonson’s Volpone
John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
I decided to go with this syllabus for summer because when one is studying Shakespeare, it’s valuable to read and watch some work by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. You’ll notice that I recommend the New Mermaids/Methuen editions of the plays. You could certainly use some other edition, but these are a good choice because they offer thorough footnotes to accompany the text.
Last Updated on March 27, 2025 by ajd_shxpr