Fall 2024  |  ENGL 3007H Section 001: Honors: Shakespeare (19208)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Honors
Enrollment Requirements:
honors student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 211
Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
From Taylor Swift to Greta Gerwig, from Toni Morrison to Nelson Mandela, Shakespeare's works have continued to influence and inspire authors, artists, and audiences around the globe. In this upper division course, you will study representative works of Shakespeare from a variety of cultural perspectives, as texts that have had a long and enduring vitality well beyond their historical context. This course tracks the history of Shakespeare's plays across time, in various artistic forms including art, music, film, and social media, looking at the ways these literary works have responded to issues of gender, race, sexuality, religion, disability, and class. English majors/minors must take this course A-F only grading basis.
Class Description:
This course is an in-depth examination of representative works by William Shakespeare. We will read Shakespeare's plays in connection with readings related to their political, social, historical, and intellectual backgrounds. We will also engage with a variety of critical approaches to Shakespeare, including performance studies, gender studies, and reception history, covering such topics as sexuality, authority, violence, politics, and staging issues. Finally, we will take into account the complex history of Shakespeare's reputation over the last 400 years, and the performance and critical history of his canon.
Class Format:
20% Lecture
80% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19208/1249
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
2 November 2011

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