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Spring 2025 | ENGL 1181W Section 001: Introduction to Shakespeare (53922)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:05AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Four hundred years ago, Williams Shakespeare entertained, shocked, amused, and informed London audiences in a round wooden theater on the south bank of the Thames. Today, his plays are among the most read, performed, and adapted around the globe, in numerous languages, on stage, page, and screen. Why do so many people still seek out Shakespeare's writing? How do his works continue to influence literature and culture? Through intensive study of representative plays and poems, you will become familiar with Shakespeare's dramatic and literary techniques. You will learn about the social, historical, and cultural forces that influenced his writing. And you will build your own arguments as to Shakespeare's meaning for audiences today.
- Class Description:
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This course explores the richness and variety of the playwright William Shakespeare through intensive study of representative plays and poems. Although Shakespeare died over 400 years ago, he is now more popular than ever. In his own day, Shakespeare was able to entertain, shock, amuse, and inform his audiences. Today, his work continues to have a global influence in nearly every corner of the world. Through class lectures, discussions and written work, students will be challenged and inspired by the many complexities and connections that we still have with the world's greatest playwright.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53922/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Spring 2025 | ENGL 1181W Section 002: Introduction to Shakespeare (64800)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 09:05AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Four hundred years ago, Williams Shakespeare entertained, shocked, amused, and informed London audiences in a round wooden theater on the south bank of the Thames. Today, his plays are among the most read, performed, and adapted around the globe, in numerous languages, on stage, page, and screen. Why do so many people still seek out Shakespeare's writing? How do his works continue to influence literature and culture? Through intensive study of representative plays and poems, you will become familiar with Shakespeare's dramatic and literary techniques. You will learn about the social, historical, and cultural forces that influenced his writing. And you will build your own arguments as to Shakespeare's meaning for audiences today.
- Class Description:
- William Shakespeare is still one of the most widely read authors in the English language, and one of the most frequently performed playwrights; additionally, his works have been translated into nearly every language around the globe. Whether or not we are comfortable with his place atop the canon of English literature, we cannot ignore the scope and depth of his influence on Western art and culture. At a time when Europe was undergoing massive, fundamental changes, from the level of the nation down to the level of individual experience, Shakespeare wrote more prolifically and more widely than almost any of his peers. Simply put, no other single author can tell us so much about life in Early Modern England. Nor is his vision limited to that time and place; if his worldwide appeal is in part owing to England's imperial dominance of the last few centuries, it is also (it has been argued) because his plays and poems 'seem' to express 'truths' about the human condition that rise above nation and period. Texts: to be determined.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64800/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 October 2016
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