(ENGL 328) Topics in Shakespeare

3-4 Credits

This class explores why Shakespeare’s plays and poems still resonate today. We will focus in particular on how Shakespeare’s plays have been used to explore questions of gender, race and social class. We’ll read some of the “greatest hits” as well as a few lesser-known works, focusing first on how these texts were understood in the time they were written and then on why and how they inform our perspective today. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU, W