ENGL 418

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Shakespeare

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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 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	54465	Lecture-Discussion	1G	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	108 English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: This course explores seven Shakespearean plays from a range of dramatic genres and from a variety of critical approaches. We’ll look especially at the features that made these plays popular in their day: their open staging, their playful language, and their laying bare of the period’s familial, national, gender, and racial tensions. We’ll also consider how the meanings of ‘Shakespeare’ keep multiplying, 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, a rare-book library visit, and attending at least one live production of a Shakespeare play on campus. Written assignments include informal writings, two focused short papers, a longer paper based on guided research (7-9 pp.), and a final exam. TEXTS: (these print editions are required) Greenblatt et al, eds., Shakespeare: Essential Plays (3rd edition, 2016, ISBN 978-0-393-93863-0); McDonald, ed., Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (2nd edition, 2001, ISBN 978-0312248802); one individual play edition TBA. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	54464	Lecture-Discussion	1U	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	108 English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This course explores seven Shakespearean plays from a range of dramatic genres and from a variety of critical approaches. We’ll look especially at the features that made these plays popular in their day: their open staging, their playful language, and their laying bare of the period’s familial, national, gender, and racial tensions. We’ll also consider how the meanings of ‘Shakespeare’ keep multiplying, 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, a rare-book library visit, and attending at least one live production of a Shakespeare play on campus. Written assignments include informal writings, two focused short papers, a longer paper based on guided research (7-9 pp.), and a final exam. TEXTS: (these print editions are required) Greenblatt et al, eds., Shakespeare: Essential Plays (3rd edition, 2016, ISBN 978-0-393-93863-0); McDonald, ed., Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (2nd edition, 2001, ISBN 978-0312248802); one individual play edition TBA. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Rhetoric or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.