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 spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	54465	Lecture-Discussion	1G	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	104 English Building	Gray, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: This course aims to introduce you to Shakespeare's plays, from Richard III to Much Ado About Nothing. We will explore Shakespeare?s growing versatility in range of dramatic genres?comedy, tragedy, and the "problem plays"?and investigate the development of his poetic skill, focusing on language alongside plot and character. We will think about his plays both as historical artifacts produced within a specific context and as living texts that continue to be performed today. We will therefore intertwine multiple methods in our analysis of these texts, engaging in close reading of his dramatic verse (which is, after all, often poetry), analyzing historical background and contemporary critical articles (to situate Shakespeare both within his historical time period and within present day critical debates), and performing key scenes. Throughout, we will focus on the way Shakespeare?s plays foreground the theme of acting and performance in order to explore issues of identity and disguise, gender hierarchy and social order, sexual identity, political power and nation-formation. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	54464	Lecture-Discussion	1U	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	104 English Building	Gray, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This course aims to introduce you to Shakespeare?s plays, from Richard III to Much Ado About Nothing. We will explore Shakespeare?s growing versatility in range of dramatic genres?comedy, tragedy, and the ?problem plays??and investigate the development of his poetic skill, focusing on language alongside plot and character. We will think about his plays both as historical artifacts produced within a specific context and as living texts that continue to be performed today. We will therefore intertwine multiple methods in our analysis of these texts, engaging in close reading of his dramatic verse (which is, after all, often poetry), analyzing historical background and contemporary critical articles (to situate Shakespeare both within his historical time period and within present day critical debates), and performing key scenes. Throughout, we will focus on the way Shakespeare?s plays foreground the theme of acting and performance in order to explore issues of identity and disguise, gender hierarchy and social order, sexual identity, political power and nation-formation. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.