Shakespeare

We will read a number of Shakespeare's plays from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale in relation to the sources, analogues, and genres (classical, continental and English) on which he drew. We will consider both formal and historical questions. Issues to be addressed include genre, the Shakespearean text, gender, sexuality, status, degree, and nation. Some attention to what has come to be called "global" Shakespeare. Written work to include a mid-term and two papers.