Shakespeare

Catalog description

This course is an advanced study of selected Shakespearean plays and the Elizabethan era/world in which Shakespeare lived and worked. We will consider Shakespeare as a professional dramatist in the Early Modern English theatre along with some of the literary questions raised with regard to Shakespeare’s life and works. There is an emphasis on the context and critical reaction to those works through the lens of contemporary literary theory which will allow us consider Shakespeare’s plays both as products of their author's time and as contemporary cultural works. Meets MEd Standard 1.