ENGL 418

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Shakespeare

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Survey of the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Reading assignments will reflect the generic diversity and historical breadth of Shakespeare's work.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 418 class schedule data for fall 2013
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
40436	Lecture-Discussion	1G	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	259 English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: This course explores seven Shakespearean plays from a cross-section of dramatic genres. We?ll look especially at the features that made these plays popular in their day: their open staging, their playful language, their laying bare of the period?s familial, national, gender, and racial tensions. But we?ll also find that the cultural significance of ?Shakespeare? accumulated through the plays? later lives, thanks to their continuous, often resistant, reinventions by performers, literary critics, and adapters world-wide. That constant reinvention demands that we, too, employ multiple interpretive practices to continue opening up the plays: close reading; informal staging; film analysis; feminist, historicist, postcolonial, and queer studies critical approaches. Be ready for proactive discussion, performance experiments, and rigorous written work, including informal journals, a response to at least one on-campus Shakespeare production, two focused short papers, a longer paper using guided research (7-9 pp.), and a final exam. TEXTS: (Required) Greenblatt et al, eds., The Norton Shakespeare: Essential Plays (2nd edition, ISBN 978-0-393-93313-0); McDonald, ed., Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (2nd edition, ISBN 978-0312248802); one contextual edition of a play TBA. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
32335	Lecture-Discussion	1U	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	259 English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This course explores seven Shakespearean plays from a cross-section of dramatic genres. We?ll look especially at the features that made these plays popular in their day: their open staging, their playful language, their laying bare of the period?s familial, national, gender, and racial tensions. But we?ll also find that the cultural significance of ?Shakespeare? accumulated through the plays? later lives, thanks to their continuous, often resistant, reinventions by performers, literary critics, and adapters world-wide. That constant reinvention demands that we, too, employ multiple interpretive practices to continue opening up the plays: close reading; informal staging; film analysis; feminist, historicist, postcolonial, and queer studies critical approaches. Be ready for proactive discussion, performance experiments, and rigorous written work, including informal journals, a response to at least one on-campus Shakespeare production, two focused short papers, a longer paper using guided research (7-9 pp.), and a final exam. TEXTS: (Required) Greenblatt et al, eds., The Norton Shakespeare: Essential Plays (2nd edition, ISBN 978-0-393-93313-0); McDonald, ed., Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (2nd edition, ISBN 978-0312248802); one contextual edition of a play TBA. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
40440	Lecture-Discussion	2G	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	303 English Building	Wear, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: English 418 is a survey of the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Reading assignments will reflect the generic diversity and historical breadth of Shakespeare?s work. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
32340	Lecture-Discussion	2U	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	303 English Building	Wear, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: English 418 is a survey of the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Reading assignments will reflect the generic diversity and historical breadth of Shakespeare?s work. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.