Studies in Shakespeare
Prerequisite: ENGL 274 or 326.
Intensive reading of selected Shakespeare plays.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of, to analyze, and to defend interpretations of a particular body of plays by Shakespeare, chosen by genre, theme, etc.
Prerequisite: ENGL 274 or 326.
Intensive reading of selected Shakespeare plays.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of, to analyze, and to defend interpretations of a particular body of plays by Shakespeare, chosen by genre, theme, etc.
Pre-requisites: UCWR 110 and one 200-level English course.
European Studies
Shakespeare Studies
Shakespeare¿s Tragedies
Shakespeare¿s major tragedies are among the greatest works of literature in the English language and today they stand virtually alone as the most recognizable works of the Elizabethan era. But Shakespeare was not the only Elizabethan tragedian, and he composed his tragic dramas during a time of great popular interest in the form. This course will consider Shakespeare¿s tragedies in the context of the revival of tragic drama that occurred during the latter decades of the seventeenth century. We will orient our readings in Elizabethan theories of tragedy, which owed a heavy debt to classical conceptions of the form. We will also read the works of Thomas Kyd and other contemporaries of Shakespeare, whose innovations in the staging of tragedy had a great influence on Shakespeare¿s own works. Most of all, though, we will closely read Shakespeare¿s tragedies, with a particular emphasis on how he adapted other models¿contemporary and ancient¿to his own dramatic purposes. This course will offer students an opportunity to attend performances of Shakespeare¿s tragedies in person.
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