Shakespeare
Maureen Quilligan profile
TR 1:30-3
A survey of selected plays by Shakespeare in each of the four
genres: three comedies, three histories, three tragedies, and two
romances. Class lectures will focus on interpretation of the
playtexts as enduring works of art; but such interpretation will
remain self-conscious of how it is alternatively shaped by the
two different ways in which we experience a play, both as text
and as performance. There will be some video played and selected
scenes acted; students will also learn about the differences
between various printed versions of individual plays (i.e.
quartos and folios). There will be two short (3-4 pp.) papers,
one on a textual topic, the other on a performance topic
(participation in a scene will count for the performance paper);
a midterm and a final. (NOTE: This course is similar to English
35; students who have taken English 35 in the past should take
not this course but English 36 or English 335.)
updated 2006-10-17
