Course details

Name: ENGL - 353

Title: SHAKESPEARE: COMEDIES AND HISTORIES

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2022

Credits: 3

Description:
This course examines several of Shakespeare’s major comedies and history plays as cultural productions reflecting the concerns, anxieties, values, and ideologies of Shakespeare’s England. We attend to the forms and general aims of comedy and the history play as genres, and give careful consideration to social issues such as gender and class construction, conformity, scapegoating, and the contest for political power. Two papers (5 and 10 pp., respectively); midterm and final exam. Class participation is expected and encouraged.

Last updated on 2021-09-30 By Liebler Naomi (lieblern)

Schedule: Tuesday From 2:30 pm To 5:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Drama)
• Shakespeare (TE 1a)
• Pre-1700 (1a)
• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)

Teaching Faculty: Liebler Naomi (lieblern)

Is course canceled: No