INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE

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This course provides a close study of William Shakespeare's dramatic work, including early and late plays selected from the histories, comedies, tragedies, satires, and romances. The course emphasizes Shakespeare's variety and development as a dramatic artist. Consideration is given to the social, cultural, and political milieu from which the plays emerged, as well as to the role, function, and performance of dramatic literature within Elizabethan and Jacobean England.