ENL 5227 Summer 2023 Della Gatta
This course will offer an advanced study of a selection of Shakespeare’s comedies and romances: Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and The Winter’s Tale. Primary readings include select Shakespeare plays and sonnets, as well as some filmed versions of the plays.
The objectives of this course are two-fold: first, to develop a strategy for reading early modern prose and verse, and second, to attend to dramatic form. The scholarly focus will be methods for reading plays as theatrical texts, situating them in their performance contexts during Shakespeare’s time and interpreting how they are performed today. This class will also include a unit on the reading and teaching of dramatic literature in various academic contexts.
Requirements: This course fulfills the general literature requirement for one course pre-1660. It also satisfies the requirement for coursework in the following Area of Concentration: Medieval and Early Modern British Literary and Cultural Studies (through 1660)
Requirements: This course satisfies the requirement for coursework in the following Areas of Concentration: Post-1900 Literary and Cultural Studies (American, British, Irish); A Literary Genre (Drama). This course also meets the Alterity requirement.