ENGL 201(F) Shakespeare's Major Plays
This team-taught lecture course will explore eight Shakespeare plays: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV, part 1, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra. Lectures explore Shakespeare's uses of language, his developing powers as dramatist and poet, comic and tragic genres, critical implications and theatrical possibilities, gender roles, sexual relations, and family relationships, the perennial problems of self-fashioning, social construction, and personal agency.
Format: two formal lectures and one discussion class per week. Requirements: two papers, a midterm and final exam.
Prerequisites: a 100-level English course, except 150. Enrollment limit: 75 (expected: 75).
Hour: I. BELL, R. BELL