![]() ![]() This course explores the historical roots of our ideas about race and gender by way of Shakespeare and the culture in which he wrote. ![]() GEN: Foundation - Literary, Visual and Performing ArtsĮnglish 2221: Introduction the Shakespeare, Race and Gender Guiding Questions: What's the big deal about Shakespeare? How can we read Shakespeare in light of and as an expression of the period in English history in which he wrote? What would going to the theater have been like during his lifetime? How have filmmakers tapped into and transformed his texts? Why is he still a big box office draw at the movies? Potential Assignments: A paper, a group presentation, a critical article review, several short, informal writing assignments. 1: Early Plays and Poems Vol 1: Early Plays Vol. Potential Texts: The Norton Shakespeare, ed. Plays may include Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Coriolanus and The Winter's Tale. We'll read about five plays, and possibly some of Shakespeare's sonnets. ![]() Our primary concern will be with Shakespeare’s text, but we will also spend some time discussing theatrical performances as well as film adaptations. What's that all about? Why does he still occupy the top spot in the hierarchy of the literary - especially when what he wrote was not considered high literature at the time he wrote it? Our aim in this course will be to increase your understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare’s plays to give you a sense of the kinds of critical debates that surround the plays, and enough historical context to make clear how the times in which Shakespeare lived both differed from and resembled our own and to lodge in your mind for future reference at least a bit of Shakespeare’s language. Shakespeare continues to astound us over 400 years after his death. GEN: Foundation - Literary, Visual & Performing ArtsĮnglish 2220H: Honors Introduction to Shakespeare Study of selected plays designed to give an understanding of drama as theatrical art and as an interpretation of fundamental human experience Section 10 Instructor: Jennifer Higginbotham GEN: Foundation - Literary, Visual and Performing ArtsĮnglish 2220: Introduction to Shakespeare The final portfolio project encourages you to channel your knowledge and thinking in creative ways. Potential Assignments: Weekly quizzes will help consolidate your knowledge, while weekly writing assignments and discussions will challenge you to apply what you learned and to grow intellectually from your colleagues’ insights. Potential Texts: Students will read a free online textbook I that developed specifically for this course. You will discover important forerunners of today’s popular genres, including horror, romance, comics and science fiction. The readings and lectures will introduce you to trends, authors and works from each of the four major periods of pre-1800 British literature and explore the contexts-social, historical, political, cultural-within which works were written and read. Intensive practice in the fundamentals of expository writing.Įnglish 2201: British Literature, Medieval-1800 GEN: Foundation - Writing and Information LiteracyĮnglish 1110.03: First Year English Composition GEN: Foundation - Writing and Information LiteracyĮnglish 1110.02: First Year English Composition Practice in the fundamentals of expository writing, as illustrated in the student's own writing & in the essays of professional writers. English 1110.01: First Year English Composition ![]()
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