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 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	54465	Lecture-Discussion	1G	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Shakespeare’s plays were popular culture first and foremost, although they came to be recognized as literature. Today, still living doubly as both entertainment and heritage, the plays deal with human dreams and nightmares, with harmony and tyranny, with chaos and with order. These early modern plays still leave plenty of room for interpretation, variation, and reimagining, and societies in turmoil continue to find them powerful tools for understanding. A credo of this course is that it is their language, not just their stories, that releases this potential. This semester, we’ll read seven plays in depth, getting a sense of their linguistic polysemy; their daring explorations of the period’s family, political, gender/sexual, religious and racial tensions; and their openness to reinterpretation on the page or stage. We’ll try out various approaches, making them hands-on whenever we can. Thus, when we consider the plays in performance, we’ll get on our feet and do a little (ungraded) performing, as well as looking at stage and film history. When we concentrate on close-reading the language of the plays, we’ll also think about what a complicated object a printed play really is. When we explore historicist and feminist, queer-studies, and anti-racist perspectives, we’ll analyze nonfiction documents, too, to see how the plays push against orthodoxies of their time. Written work includes some informal writings at first, one Production Analysis and one Scene Analysis, two focused short papers, a longer paper emerging from guided research (7-9 pp.), and a final exam. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Rhetoric or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	54464	Lecture-Discussion	1U	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Shakespeare’s plays were popular culture first and foremost, although they came to be recognized as literature. Today, still living doubly as both entertainment and heritage, the plays deal with human dreams and nightmares, with harmony and tyranny, with chaos and with order. These early modern plays still leave plenty of room for interpretation, variation, and reimagining, and societies in turmoil continue to find them powerful tools for understanding. A credo of this course is that it is their language, not just their stories, that releases this potential. This semester, we’ll read seven plays in depth, getting a sense of their linguistic polysemy; their daring explorations of the period’s family, political, gender/sexual, religious and racial tensions; and their openness to reinterpretation on the page or stage. We’ll try out various approaches, making them hands-on whenever we can. Thus, when we consider the plays in performance, we’ll get on our feet and do a little (ungraded) performing, as well as looking at stage and film history. When we concentrate on close-reading the language of the plays, we’ll also think about what a complicated object a printed play really is. When we explore historicist and feminist, queer-studies, and anti-racist perspectives, we’ll analyze nonfiction documents, too, to see how the plays push against orthodoxies of their time. Written work includes some informal writings at first, one Production Analysis and one Scene Analysis, two focused short papers, a longer paper emerging from guided research (7-9 pp.), and a final exam. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Rhetoric or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.