Eros: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Course

This semester will explore Eros, which can bring us to ecstatic heights or to the depths of despair, in five plays and novels. We will begin with the classic, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. We will follow this with Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Enduring Love by Ian McEwan, and The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles. I’m still thinking of the fifth, either Hippolytus by Euripides or A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (both of which we have done in the past but are always worth a reread).

* There will be no class on April 10, Easter Monday