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 fall 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40436	Lecture-Discussion	1G	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	36 English Building	Perry, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 Credit: 4 hours Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	32335	Lecture-Discussion	1U	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	36 English Building	Perry, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This course explores six or seven Shakespearean plays from several dramatic genres, with an emphasis on developing distinct critical approaches. A recurring theme is that the features that made these plays popular in their day--their fluid staging, their playful language, their confrontation of familial, national, gender, and racial tensions--still allow the meanings of ‘Shakespeare’ to keep multiplying through readers, performers, and adapters. 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; theories of performance as resistance to power structures. 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.