ENG 3350Essential Shakespeare

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Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ENG 1021 Students read and analyze plays and selected sonnets that form the core of Shakespeare’s continuing canonical status in texts, on stages, and in the classrooms of the English speaking world. Students analyze these works and their historical contexts, alongside current cultural concerns, including the maintenance of the canonical status of Shakespeare’s works as well as the politics of race, gender, colonialism, and governance in his works. This course is available to English majors and non-English majors.