ENGL 519

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Seminar in Shakespeare

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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: A college course devoted entirely to an aspect of Shakespeare's work or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 519 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	46619	Lecture-Discussion	T	3:00PM -5:50PM	R	123 English Building	Perry, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Title: Shakespeare Studies NOW Section Info: Topic Section T: Shakespeare Studies NOW Because Shakespeare so thoroughly dominates hiring and publishing in early modern English literary studies, scholarship within the Shakespeare industry has expanded to include virtually all methodologies current within literary scholarship. The practice of channeling everything though Shakespeare can have a deleterious effect on our understanding of literary history or early modern culture, but it does mean that Shakespeare studies is today a uniquely broad-based, heterogeneous, and potentially inclusive endeavor. Shakespeare studies as a field has its conventions and its received commonsense—and I hope we will become alert to the implicit limitations that have thus become part of the field’s normative assumptions—but virtually any scholarly focus can find a place within the Shakespeare industry today. Therefore, this seminar will be structured to allow participants to delve, collaboratively, into the affordances of Shakespeare studies as it is practiced now. Primary texts will consist of a set of selected plays from the Shakespeare canon: they will be chosen because they have been written about often and/or interestingly of late. This reading list will be supplemented each week by recent secondary scholarship (published since, say, 2010) selected by seminar participants (including the professor). Discussion each week will focus, therefore, on what we now write about when we write about Shakespeare, and why. Focal points will emerge, but will be shaped by the interests that students bring with them or discover over the course of the semester. Students will be encouraged to think over the course of the semester about how their own curiosities, commitments, and preoccupations can relate to contemporary Shakespeare studies. The seminar will be a collaborative choose-your-own-adventure journey through the landscape of contemporary Shakespeare studies. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.