ENL 4333 Fall 2024 - Bourus

This class is designed, not only to teach you the techniques of teaching Shakespeare, but also to increase your understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare through close readings of his plays in relation to performance of the plays, their social and historical settings, and the development of the plays as dramatic performances on stage and on film. We can cover only a few of Shakespeare’s forty-three plays, but we will examine the broad spectrum across which Shakespeare wrote for a popular audience: comedy, romance, history, and tragedy. In taking this approach, we will necessarily also examine William Shakespeare, the man, and the cultural milieu of the Early Modern period in which he wrote.

This course satisfies pre-1900 requirement for LMC majors and Creative Writing.