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ENG 2021: Shakespearean Page and Stage (3 cr.)

Looking at early-modern play texts and

performance techniques, this course examines the

literary and theatrical conditions that produced

Shakespeare and in which Shakespeare produced.

Students will learn about how Shakespeare's

theater was organized; how Shakespeare's plays

were printed; and how the early-modern stage

operated. We will begin by examining early-modern

editions of Hamlet and Lear. As students become

familiar with the quartos and folio, they will

also learn how academic editors create singular

texts from these multiple sources. In the second

half of the course, students will think about how

plays were mounted on the early-modern stage and

how Shakespeare understood the art of performance

by reading plays in which performance is a

primary theme--Love's Labours Lost, Henry IV,

part 1, Richard III, and The Winter's Tale. This

course is designed to develop students'

intermediate-level skills in critically analyzing

and writing about literature both comparatively

and in context, while also reinforcing students'

fundamental skills in analytical reading and

writing.

Prerequisite: Completion of one 1000 level

English course.

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