English 117S

Other Readings and Media

Shakespeare, W.: The Riverside Shakespeare

NB: I have ordered the Riverside Shakespeare at the bookstore. You may use any scholarly edition of each play, however, as convenient to you (‘scholarly’= published after 1960; has annotations, line numbers, and an introduction; and says who edited the text).

Description

This class is a single-semester introduction to the scope of Shakespeare’s dramatic career. Our readings will range across different genres, from early plays to late, and from some of the greatest hits to some more unfamiliar—even disquieting—works, in order to see what relations we may draw across this diverse early modern production, and what relation the texts bear in turn to the monolithic institution of ‘Shakespeare’ in contemporary culture.