Class Archive

117B/1

Shakespeare:
Tragedy

TuTh 12:30-2

“We seem,” writes A. C. Bradley in his Shakespearean Tragedy, “to have before us a type of the mystery of the whole world, the tragic fact which extends far beyond the limits of tragedy. Everywhere, from the cru...(read more)

17/1

Shakespeare

MWF 9-10

English 17 is an introduction to the study of Shakespeare; incoming transfer students, future majors, and non-majors are especially welcome.

Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, sublimely beautiful, deeply movi...(read more)

117B/1

Shakespeare:
Later Works

MW 10-11 + one discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 12-1; sec. 102: F 1-2)

This class offers an in-depth study of the second half of Shakespeare's career, featuring the major tragedies alongside later comedies and tragicomedies. We'll read ten of those plays together: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Othe...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TWTh 5-7:30

This class focuses on a selection of works from Shakespeare’s entire career. We'll be reading a limited number of plays and some of the poetry. One of the main topics we...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 4-5 + one hour of discussion

Shakespeare’s poems and plays are rele...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

Lectures TTh 1-2 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 11-12; sec. 102: F 12-1; sec. 103: F 1-2; sec. 104: F 2-3)

What makes Shakespeare Shakespeare?  We’ll search for answers to that question through the astonishing variety of Shakespeare’s plays.  We’ll explore the ways that Shakespeare develops plot and character in his drama, as...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TWTh 5-7:30

This class focuses on a selection of works from Shakespeare’s entire career. We'll be reading a limited number of plays and some of the poetry. One of the main issues we'd like to focus on is the oscillation between regular and irregu...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

Lectures TTh 2-3 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 10-11; sec. 103: F 1-2; sec. 104: F 12-1; sec. 105: F 12-1; sec. 106: F 1-2)

This class focuses on a selection of works from Shakespeare’s entire career. We'll be reading a limited number of plays and some of the poetry. One of the main issues I'd like to focus on is the oscillation between "regular"...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

Lectures TTh 4-5 in 3 LeConte (note new location) + one hour of discussion section per week in 300 Wheeler (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 11-12; sec. 103: F 12-1; sec. 104: F 2-3)

What makes Shakespeare Shakespeare?  We’ll search for answers to that question through the astonishing variety of Shakespeare’s plays.  We’ll explore the ways that Shakespeare develops plot and character in his drama, as...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TWTh 5-7:30

This course focuses on a selection of Shakespeare’s works that includes some of the best-known plays (Midsummer, Lear) as well as some of the less known but fascinating works (Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline(read more)

17/1

Shakespeare

Lectures MW 11-12 in 106 Stanley + one hour of discussion section per week in various locations (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 9-10; sec. 103: F 11-12; sec. 104: F 11-12)

English 17 offers an introduction to the study of Shakespeare that is intended for students new to the Berkeley English Department. Incoming transfer students, future majors, and non-majors are especially welcome.

The premise o...(read more)

117B/1

Shakespeare

TTh 9:30-11

A survey of the second half of Shakespeare's working life, including the later "problem" comedies, the major tragedies and the magical romances, his final works. Lectures will touch upon the complete writings and pr...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

Lectures MW 12-1 in 2060 Valley LSB + one hour of discussion section per week in various locations (sec. 101: F 10-11; sec. 102: F 12-1; sec. 103: Thurs. 1-2; sec. 104: Thurs. 3-4; sec. 105: Thurs. 4-5; sec. 106: Thurs. 4-5)

Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, sublimely beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously brilliant, and compulsively meaningful: they complicate everything, they simplify nothing, and for 400 years, they have been a touchston...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TuWTh 5-7:30 PM

This class focuses on a selection of works from Shakespeare's entire career. We'll be reading a limited number of plays and some of the poetry. One of the main issues we'd like to focus on is the oscillation between "regular" ...(read more)

17/1

Shakespeare

Lectures MW 11-12 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 10-11; sec. 103: F 11-12; sec. 104: F 12-1)

English 17 offers an introduction to the study of Shakespeare that is intended for students new to the Berkeley English Department. Incoming transfer students, future majors, and non-majors are especially welcome.

The premise of our class...(read more)

117T/1

Shakespeare in the Theater:
Cymbeline

Lectures MWF 2-3 in 310 Hearst Mining, plus rehearsals MW 3-4:30 in 300 Wheeler

Imagine that the play is an exquisite silk dress. In lectures, we look at it from many different angles; we consider the materials it’s made of; we imagine who made it and why; we listen to the sounds it makes as it moves. If you ever felt in...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

Lectures MW 2-3 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 11-12; sec. 102: F 2-3)

I am mostly interested in having the class appreciate how capacious, complex, humane, and Intelligent Shakespeare's plays can be.  So I will concentrate on the plays themselves rather than on any talk about context or political assessment....(read more)

117S/2

Shakespeare

TTh 12:30-2

Focusing on a selection of Shakespeare's many astonishing plays, we’ll consider the range of his dramaturgy and why this range was important to him.  We’ll also explore how the variety of dramatic genres in which he w...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TWTh 5-7:30

Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, extravagantly beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously brilliant, and compulsively meaningful: they complicate everything, they simplify nothing, and...(read more)

24/2

Freshman Seminar:
Shakespeare's Sonnets

W 12-1

Shakespeare's sonnets were first published in 1609, rather late in his career, with a second, curiously distorted edition in 1640. Although little is known about how they were first received by the reading public, the sonnets still cause p...(read more)

117B/1

Shakespeare:
Later Works

TTh 12:30-2

A survey of the second half of Shakespeare’s working life, including the later “problem” comedies, the major tragedies and the magical romances, his final works. Lectures will touch upon the complete writings and present sample sc...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

MWF 3-4

This class focuses on a selection of works from Shakespeare’s entire career. We'll be reading a limited number of plays and some of the poetry. One of the main issues I'd like to focus on is the oscillation between "regular"...(read more)

180L/1

Lyric Verse

TTh 5-6:30 PM

This course will examine the historical trajectory of a very fuzzy category, “lyric,” from its identified origins and early practice in English (anonymous medieval lyrics) to its 20^th- and 21^st- cent...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 12:30-2

This course will be an exercise in unabashed celebration of genius.  I will be continually asking what work these plays are doing in order to render dynamically certain basic features of human experience and to raise significant questions abo...(read more)

117S/2

Shakespeare

TTh 3:30-5

Shakespeare wrote a massive number of plays.  Focusing on a selection of them, we’ll consider the range of Shakespeare's dramaturgy and why this range was important to him.  We’ll also explore how the variety of dram...(read more)

190/6

Research Seminar:
Shakespeare: From the Globe to the Global

MWF 2-3

William Shakespeare's works have been staged all over the world, adapted as films, operas, musicals, ballets, and novels.  They have been transposed into diverse settings, from fascist Italy to the Wild West, medieval Japan to the fiction...(read more)

N117S/1

Shakespeare

MTTh 12-2

Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, extravagantly beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously brilliant, and compulsively meaningful: they co...(read more)

N117S/2

Shakespeare

MTTh 4-6

Note the change in instructor of this course (as of June 20).

                                                &nbs...(read more)

117B/1

Shakespeare:
Shakespeare after 1600

TTh 9:30-11

We will read ten or eleven plays from the later half of Shakespeare's career (which covers the late "problem" comedies, the major tragedies, and the tragicomic romances). Taking our cue from the plays' self-consciousness of their...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, extravagantly beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously brilliant, and compulsively mea...(read more)

117T/1

Shakespeare in the Theater:
Performing Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida

TTh 2-3:30

Imagine that the play is an exquisite silk dress. In lectures, we look at it from many different angles; we consider the materials it’s made of; we imagine who created it and why; we listen to the sounds it makes as it moves. If you ever won...(read more)

217/1

Shakespeare

TTh 2-3:30

An introduction to the study of Shakespeare at the graduate level. We'll examine a range of contemporary approaches to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and consider how they emerge from longstanding preoccupations across four hundred years o...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 11-12:30

Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, extravagantly beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously brilliant, and compulsively meaningful: they complicate everything, they simplify nothing, and for 400 years, they have been a touc...(read more)

117S/2

Shakespeare

MW 1-2; discussion sections F 1-2

Shakespeare wrote a massive number of plays.  Focusing on a selection of them, we’ll consider the range of Shakespeare's dramaturgy and why this range was important to him.  We’ll also explore how the variety of dram...(read more)

N117S/1

Shakespeare

MTTh 12-2

In his great book on Shakespearean Tragedy (1905), A. C. Bradley writes that, when we experience one of Shakespeare's tragic plays, "We seem to have before us a type of the mystery of the whole world, the tragic fact which extend...(read more)

24/1

Freshman Seminar:
Shakespeare's Sonnets

M 12-1

Shakespeare's sonnets were first published in 1609. Although little is known about how they were first received by the reading public, they have caused puzzlement and delight since their second edition, published in 1640. Over the course of th...(read more)

117A/1

Shakespeare:
Shakespeare before 1600

MW 11-12; discussion sections F 11-12

English 117A studies the first half of Shakespeare's career in depth. We'll focus on eight plays--a tragedy, three major comedies, and the great four-play "Lancastrian" cycle of histories--and on the Sonnets. And we will acquaint...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 12:30-2

This class focuses on a selection of works from Shakespeare’s entire career. We'll be reading a limited number of plays and some of the poetry. One of the main issues I'd like to focus on is the oscillation between "regular&quot...(read more)

117B/1

Shakespeare

MW 10-11 + discussion sections F 10-11

English 117B is a course in the last ten years or so of Shakespeare's career. It is a chance to read the tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Anthony and Cleopatra; at least one of the problematic late comedies, Measure...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 12:30-2

Shakespeare wrote a massive number of plays.  Focusing on a selection of them, we’ll consider the range of Shakespeare's dramaturgy and why this range was important to him.  We’ll also explore how the vari...(read more)

190/8

Research Seminar:
Shakespeare’s Versification

TTh 3:30-5

This course will explore Shakespeare's artistic use of the formal resources of verse, especially meter, rhyme, alliteration and syntactic parallelism, as well as, by way of contrast, some of his use of music.  We will consider what define...(read more)

N117S/1

Shakespeare:
Shakespearean Tragedy

MTTh 12-2

In his great book on Shakespearean Tragedy (1905), A.C. Bradley writes that, when we experience one of Shakespeare's tragic plays, "We seem to have before us a type of the mystery of the whole world, the tragic fact which extends...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 2-3:30

This course will be a basic introduction to the major plays of Shakespeare.  It will include Midsummer Night 's Dream, probably Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear(read more)

117S/2

Shakespeare

MW 10-11 + discussion sections F 10-11

Shakespeare's poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, crazy beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously brilliant, and compulsively meaningful: they complicate everything, they simplify nothing, and for 400 years, they have been a touchstone--in...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 12:30-2

This will be an introduction to close reading Shakespeare that will address all of his genres and periods, at least after 1596.  I am interested primarily in unabashedly celebrating Shakespeare’s various forms of genius by tracing how c...(read more)

117S/2

Shakespeare

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, crazy beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously brilliant, and compulsively meaningful: they complicate everything, they simplify nothing, and for 400 years, they have been a touchstone&m...(read more)

N117S/2

Shakespeare

MTuTh 12-2

Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, crazy beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously brilliant, and compulsively meaningful: they complicate everything, they simplify nothing, and for 400 years, they have been a touchstone&m...(read more)

117B/1

Shakespeare

TTh 12:30-2

A study of a dozen plays from the second half of Shakespeare's career, including Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 11-12:30

This class focuses on a selection of works from Shakespeare’s entire career. We'll be reading a limited number of plays and some of the poetry. One of the main issues I'd like to focus on is the oscillation between "regular&quot...(read more)

117B/1

Shakespeare:
Shakespeare after 1600

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

We will read ten or eleven plays from the later half of Shakespeare's career (which covers the late "problem" comedies, the major tragedies, and the tragicomedies). Taking our cue from the plays' self-consciousness of their mediu...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 12:30-2

Shakespeare wrote a vast number of extraordinary plays.  We'll consider the range of these plays and why this range was important to him.  We'll also explore how the variety of plays in which he wrote affected Shakespeare's r...(read more)

114A/1

English Drama to 1603

TTh 5-6:30

This course offers a wide-ranging survey of sixteenth-century drama up to and beyond the building of the first commercial theaters in London in the 1570s. After sampling the medieval mystery and morality traditions, we will consider the formal and...(read more)

117A/1

Shakespeare

TTh 3:30-5

We will read as much as possible of the Complete Works, up to and including Hamlet (generally thought to have been written in 1600). In fact we will begin and end with that extraordinary play, exploring the individual elements that run th...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

NOTE NEW TIME: WF 4-5:30

This class is a general survey of Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic works. One of the main issues I'd like to focus on is the oscillation between "regular" and "irregular." What is the rule, and what is the exception ...(read more)

117B/1

Shakespeare

TTh 11-12:30

English 117B is a course in the last ten years or so of Shakespeare's career. It is a chance to read the tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Anthony and Cleopatra; at least one of the problematic late comedies, Measure...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare:
Selected Plays

TTh 12:30-2

Shakespeare wrote a massive number of plays.  We'll consider the range of plays he wrote, and why this range was important to him.  We'll also explore how different dramatic genres affect Shakespeare's representation...(read more)

N117S/1

Shakespeare

MW 10-12

This course is an introductory survey at the upper-division level. We will attempt to read eight Shakespeare plays plus a selection of sonnets. As California Shakespeare Theater (“Cal Shakes”) in near-by Orinda will be performing Th...(read more)

117A/1

Shakespeare

TTh 2-3:30

This class focuses on Shakespeare's early career and works, that is, on the "Elizabethan" Shakespeare. We'll be reading a very limited number of plays and some poetry. One of the main issues I'd like to focus on is the oscill...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 9:30-11

Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, crazy beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously brilliant, and compulsively meaningful: they complicate everything, they simplify nothing, and for 400 years, they have been a touchstone&m...(read more)

117B/1

Shakespeare

TTh 11-12:30

We will read ten or eleven plays from the later half of Shakespeare's career (which covers the late "problem" comedies, the major tragedies, and the tragicomedies). Taking our cue from the plays' self-consciousness of their mediu...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 3:30-5

This course will focus on Shakespeare's plays as plays, as moment-to-moment actions on the minds of audiences. I will take up some other topics related to the plays--Shakespeare's stage, printing practices, socio- and political contexts (a...(read more)

N117S/1

Shakespeare

MTuTh 2-4

This course has a general purpose, to provide an intensive introduction to
Shakespeare by focusing closely on selected plays. It also has a specific
mode of operation: we’ll consider important aspects of Shakespeare studies
(ne...(read more)

117A/1

Shakespeare

note new time: TTh 11-12:30

Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, crazy beautiful, deeply moving, penetratingly intelligent, and compulsively meaningful: they complicate everything, they simplify nothing, and for 400 years, they have been a touchsto...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

note new time: MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

This will be an introduction to close reading of Shakespeare that will address all of his genres and periods, at least after 1596.  I know very little about race, class, or gender and care even less.  I am interested primarily in unabashe...(read more)

117B/1

Shakespeare

TTh 2-3:30

117S/1

Shakespeare

MW 11-12 + Discussion F 11-12

N117S/1

Shakespeare

MWF 12-2

This course is both an intense and an introductory upper-division course on Shakespeare. It is introductory in that it will cover systematically several important aspects of the plays and several critical tools needed to understand and analyze them...(read more)

117S/1

Shakespeare

TTh 12:30-2

117B/1

Shakespeare After 1600

MW 2-3 + Discussion F 2-3

117S/1

Shakespeare in the Theater

TTh 2-3:30

117A/1

Upper Division Coursework:
The Elizabethan Shakespeare

TTh 2-3:30

117S/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

TTh 3:30-5

117B/1

:
Shakespeare

TTh 11-12:30

117A/1

:
Shakespeare

TTh 12:30-2

117S/1

:
Shakespeare

TTh 9:30-11

117T/1

:
Shakespeare in the Theater

TTh 3:30-5, plus rehearsals TTh 5-6:30

117B/1

Junior Coursework:
Shakespeare

TTh 2-3:30

117S/1

Junior Coursework:
Shakespeare

TTh 9:30-11

117B/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

MWF 11-12

117J/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

TTh 5-6:30 P.M.

117S/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

TTh 11-12:30

117B/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

MWF 11-12

117J/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

TTh 5-6:30

117S/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

TTh 11-12:30

117T/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare in the Theater

TTh 2-3:30 in 200 Wheeler, plus rehearsals TTh 3:30-5 (also in 200 Wheeler)

117A/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

TTh 2-3:30

117S/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

MW 4-5:30

117B/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

TTh 11-12:30

117J/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

TTh 5-6:30

117S/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare, the Self and the Theater

TTh 2-3:30

117A/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare

TTh 12:30-2

117S/1

Upper Division Coursework:
Shakespeare: Selected Plays

TTh 11-12:30