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 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	54465	Lecture-Discussion	1G	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 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 consider how the meanings of ?Shakespeare? have proliferated thanks to the constant, sometimes subversive, reinvention of the plays by literary critics, performers, and adapters world-wide. That diversity compels us to use multiple interpretive frames to look at the plays: close reading; informal staging; film analysis; feminist, historicist, postcolonial, and queer studies critical approaches. Be ready for proactive discussion, performance experiments, and a visit to the rare book library. Written assignments include informal journals, a response to at least one on-campus Shakespeare production, two focused short papers, a longer paper based on 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); at least one individual play edition, probably tied to the What You Will spring season. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	54464	Lecture-Discussion	1U	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 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 consider how the meanings of ?Shakespeare? have proliferated thanks to the constant, sometimes subversive, reinvention of the plays by literary critics, performers, and adapters world-wide. That diversity compels us to use multiple interpretive frames to look at the plays: close reading; informal staging; film analysis; feminist, historicist, postcolonial, and queer studies critical approaches. Be ready for proactive discussion, performance experiments, and a visit to the rare book library. Written assignments include informal journals, a response to at least one on-campus Shakespeare production, two focused short papers, a longer paper based on 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); at least one individual play edition, probably tied to the What You Will spring season. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.