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Fall 2021 |
114B/1 English Drama from 1603 to 1700 TTh 2-3:30 |
Reaching across the upheavals of the seventeenth century, thi...(read more) |
Landreth, David
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Fall 2021 |
117S/1 TTh 4-5 + one hour of discussion |
Shakespeare’s poems and plays are rele...(read more) |
Arnold, Oliver
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Fall 2021 |
175/1 TTh 12:30-2 |
We will read drama, poetry and short fiction by contemporary authors with disabilities. Requirements will include two analytical essays, a group presentation project and a take-home final exam. This is a core course for the disabili...(read more) |
Kleege, Georgina
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Fall 2021 |
190/2 Research Seminar: W 2-5 |
This seminar will introduce students to “law and literature” studies, focusing on the way literature imagines the relation between law and justice. We’ll begin with literature of the Romantic period, and concentrate on intersectio...(read more) |
Langan, Celeste
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Spring 2021 |
117S/1 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) |
Knapp, Jeffrey
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Spring 2021 |
165/5 TTh 2-3:30 |
This course will use both traditional and digital humanities methods to explore Irish drama from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Working through a series of historical periods, we will consider individual plays in their own right and ...(read more) |
Flynn, Catherine
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Spring 2021 |
166/5 MWF 2-3 |
Anton Chekhov's (1860-1904) prominence in the English-speaking world is comparable only to Shakespeare's place in Russian culture. This course is devoted to Chekhov's fictional and dramatic writing, and to the lasting influence of his a...(read more) |
Muza, Anna |
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Summer 2021 |
117S/1 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) |
Marno, David
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Summer 2021 |
180C/1 TWTh 9:30-12 |
“I went into a room and saw one person standing up and one person sitting down.” Harold Pinter’s wry description of his playwriting process will serve as a guide in this course for exploring the various positions afforded by stand...(read more) |
Chiang, Cheng-Chai
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Fall 2020 |
117S/1 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) |
Marno, David
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Fall 2020 |
170/1 Literature and the Arts: TTh 12:30-2 |
Opera and Literary Form "An exotic and irrational entertainment" (Samuel Johnson). Invented i...(read more) |
Duncan, Ian
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Fall 2020 |
175/1 TTh 2-3:30 |
We will read drama, poetry and short fiction by contemporary authors with disabilities. Requirements will include two analytical essays, a group presentation project and a take-home final exam. This is a core course for the di...(read more) |
Kleege, Georgina
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Spring 2020 |
28/1 Introduction to the Study of Drama TTh 9:30-11 |
The work of this class will be to understand the drama as literature in company. Lots of other literary forms make claims about what social life is like, and strive to act upon the social life of their readers beyond the reading experience...(read more) |
Landreth, David
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Spring 2020 |
180T/1 MWF 12-1 |
An ancient (if not foundational) genre in the western literary tradition, tragedy is the one most closely linked with key religious and philosophical questions, due to its concern with catastrophic misfortune, suffering and fatality in human life. ...(read more) |
Duncan, Ian
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Fall 2019 |
17/1 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) |
Landreth, David
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Fall 2019 |
117B/1 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) |
Turner, James Grantham
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Fall 2019 |
128/1 MW 3-4:30 |
This course will trace the theater's itinerary as form and idea across the twentieth century, attending to the stage as both a writerly medium and a space that contests received literary ideas. We will begin in the Euro...(read more) |
Blanton, C. D.
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Fall 2019 |
175/1 TTh 3:30-5 |
This course will allow students to explore theories and representations of disability. We’ll wonder whether it’s possible to develop an inclusive, common “theory” adequate to vario...(read more) |
Langan, Celeste
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Fall 2019 |
180C/1 TTh 12:30-2 |
Tragedy has been deemed dead almost for almost as long as it has existed; for some, it gave up its soul when philosophy appeared in ancient Greece, for others, it's capitalism and action movies that killed it in the twentieth century. But while...(read more) |
Marno, David
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Fall 2019 |
190/2 Research Seminar: MW 1:30-3 |
In this research seminar, we'll be considering Shakespeare, his playwriting rivals, his actorly partners, and their audiences as participants in the burgeoning entertainment industry of early modern London. We'll attend to the conditions an...(read more) |
Landreth, David
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Fall 2019 |
190/6 Research Seminar: TTh 11-12:30 |
This course will introduce students to “law and literature” studies, focusing on the way literature imagines the relation between law and justice. We’ll concentrate on literature of the ...(read more) |
Langan, Celeste
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Spring 2019 |
166/7 MWF 3-4 |
Anton Chekhov’s (1860-1904) prominence in the English-speaking world is comparable only to Shakespeare’s place in Russian culture. This course is devoted to Chekhov’s fictional and dramatic writing, and to the lasting influence of...(read more) |
Muza, Anna |
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Fall 2018 |
17/1 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) |
Landreth, David
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Fall 2018 |
126/1 MWF 2-3 |
How did British and Irish literature change over the first half of the twentieth-century? Was “modernism” a historical moment, an aesthetic movement, or a critical attitude—or some combination of the three? How did write...(read more) |
Gang, Joshua
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Fall 2018 |
165/3 Special Topics: TTh 9:30-11 |
This course will consider literature in relation to media theory. Is literature made obsolete by new media? What happens when we consider print literature in re...(read more) |
Langan, Celeste
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Fall 2018 |
175/1 TTh 3:30-5 |
We will examine the ways disability is represented in a variety of works of fiction and drama. Sometimes disability is used as a metaphor or symbol of something else. In other cases, texts explore disability as a lived experience. ...(read more) |
Kleege, Georgina
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Spring 2018 |
117S/1 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) |
Altieri, Charles F.
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Spring 2018 |
117S/2 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) |
Knapp, Jeffrey
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Spring 2018 |
134/1 Lectures MW 11-12 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 11-12; sec. 103: Thurs. 9-10; sec. 104: Thurs. 1-2) |
This course will survey Irish and British writing since World War II. As we dig into the formal and generic workings of a range of texts, we will also think through the political and cultural contexts from which they emerge. Along ...(read more) |
Falci, Eric
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Spring 2018 |
166/1 Special Topics: MWF 2-3 |
What relation does comedy have to violence? Can humor be a gauge of political freedom? How does it resist violence or ally itself with it? In this class, we will consider various styles of humor—wit, buffoonery, satire, parody, nonsense, absu...(read more) |
Flynn, Catherine
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Spring 2018 |
166/3 Special Topics: TTh 3:30-5 |
In a poem for the first edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays in 1623, his fellow playwright Ben Jonson expressed a characteristic ambivalence about classical drama. On the one hand, he praised it as the standard by which all subsequ...(read more) |
Knapp, Jeffrey
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Spring 2018 |
190/1 Research Seminar: MW 9:30-11 |
This seminar will focus on the way literature imagines the relation between law and justice, concentrating on literature of the Romantic period. We’ll consider writers’ interest in persons (from beggars and trespassers to gods and sover...(read more) |
Langan, Celeste
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Spring 2018 |
190/8 Research Seminar: TTh 12:30-2 |
This course explores some ...(read more) |
Creasy, CFS
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Fall 2017 |
175/1 TTh 3:30-5 |
This course will have several components. An introductory section will provide students with a grounding in disability theory; we’ll wonder whether it’s possible to develop a common “theory” adequate to various disability ca...(read more) |
Langan, Celeste
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Fall 2017 |
190/3 Research Seminar: MW 3:30-5 |
Life is full of death; the steps of the living cannot press the earth without disturbing the ashes of the dead—we walk upon our ancestors—the globe itself is one vast churchyard. |
Creasy, CFS
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Spring 2017 |
28/1 Introduction to the Study of Drama MWF 10-11 |
The work of this class will be to understand the drama as literature in company. Lots of other literary forms make claims about what social life is like, and strive to act upon the social life of their readers beyond the reading experienc...(read more) |
Landreth, David
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Spring 2017 |
119/1 Literature of the Restoration and the Early 18th Century TTh 12:30-2 |
In an age of commercial print expansion, men and women writers negotiated the possibilities, limits, and perceived dangers of publishing. In this class, we will explore the forms and strategies writers deployed in those negotiati...(read more) |
Sorensen, Janet
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Spring 2017 |
166/5 Special Topics: TTh 11-12:30 |
In this course we will focus on one of the major canons in modern literature, one that includes, some would argue, the most significant English-language poet, the most important novelist, and the most remarkable playwright of the 20th century. &...(read more)
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Falci, Eric
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Spring 2017 |
190/6 Research Seminar: 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) |
Bahr, Stephanie M
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Fall 2016 |
117T/1 Shakespeare in the Theater: 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) |
Marno, David
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Fall 2016 |
170/2 Literature and the Arts: TTh 3:30-5 |
Together with the novel, opera became one of the characteristic European art forms of the long nineteenth century. Attending to the hybrid status of opera as a dramatic as well as a musical form, the course will focus on a series of major musical-...(read more) |
Duncan, Ian
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Fall 2016 |
175/1 TTh 9:30-11 |
We will examine the ways disability is represented in a variety of works of fiction and drama. Assignments will include two short (5-8 page) critical essays, a group performance project and a take-home final examination. (This is a cor...(read more) |
Kleege, Georgina
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Fall 2016 |
190/7 Research Seminar: TTh 11-12:30 |
Note the new topic (and book list and instructor): From the earliest moments of the western literary tradition, the story of the fall of Troy has been associated with the genre of tragedy. This course charts that association from Ancient Ro...(read more) |
Perry, R. D.
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Spring 2016 |
117S/1 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) |
Arnold, Oliver
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Spring 2016 |
117S/2 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) |
Knapp, Jeffrey
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Spring 2016 |
128/1 MWF 2-3 |
This course will be a survey of Modern Drama, mostly in Europe and in the US from about 1880 to 2000. We will read about 30 plays, and we will watch at least a couple of them. Dramatists studied will include Ibsen, Chekhov, P...(read more) |
Altieri, Charles F.
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Spring 2016 |
190/6 Research Seminar: MW 4-5:30 |
In a poem for the first edition of Shakespeare’s collected works, Ben Jonson expressed a characteristic ambivalence about classical drama. On the one hand, he praised it as the standard by which all subsequent playwriting sh...(read more) |
Knapp, Jeffrey
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Summer 2016 |
N117S/1 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) |
Puckett, Kent
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Fall 2015 |
141/1 Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.) TTh 9:30-11 |
This course will introduce students to the study of creative writing--fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will learn to talk critically about these forms and begin to feel comfortable and confident writing within these genres. Student...(read more) |
Abrams, Melanie
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Fall 2015 |
141/2 Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.) TTh 9:30-11 |
This course will introduce students to the study of creative writing--fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will learn to talk critically about these forms and begin to feel comfortable and confident writing within these genres. Student...(read more) |
Hass, Robert L.
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Spring 2015 |
117B/1 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) |
Hass, Robert L.
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Fall 2014 |
28/1 Introduction to the Study of Drama MWF 2-3 |
The dramatic arts confound most of the certainties we generally hold about literary writing. Although there are playwrights, each performance is necessarily social and collaborative. Although the printed playscript can last indefinitely on the she...(read more) |
Lavery, Grace
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Fall 2014 |
119/1 Literature of the Restoration & the Early 18th Century TTh 3:30-5 |
The period from the "Restoration" of Charles II (1660) to the death of Alexander Pope (1744) produced the last poems of Milton, the first English pornography and feminist polemic, the most devastating satires ever written, some of the mo...(read more) |
Turner, James Grantham
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Fall 2014 |
141/1 Modes of Writing: TTh 9:30-11 |
This course will introduce students to the study of creative writing--fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will learn to talk critically about these forms and begin to feel comfortable and confident writing within these genres. Student...(read more) |
Abrams, Melanie
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Fall 2014 |
141/2 Modes of Writing: TTh 9:30-11 |
This course will introduce students to the study of creative writing--fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will learn to talk critically about these forms and begin to feel comfortable and confident writing within these genres. Student...(read more) |
Hass, Robert L.
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Fall 2014 |
165/3 Special Topics: TTh 12:30-2 |
The lectures, class discussions, readings, and writing assignments are intended to develop students' ability to analyze, understand, and evaluate a number of important ancient texts. The class will examine the deep implications of these early ...(read more) |
No instructor assigned yet. |
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Fall 2014 |
174/1 Literature and History: MWF 12-1 |
“The French Revolution did not take place.” “The French Revolution is not yet over.” These two sentences might seem not only counterfactual, but also contr...(read more) |
Langan, Celeste
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Fall 2014 |
175/1 MW 4-5:30 |
We will examine the ways disability is represented in a variety of works of fiction and drama. Assignments will include two short (5-8 page) critical essays, a group presentation project, and a take-home final examination. (This is a c...(read more) |
Kleege, Georgina
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Spring 2014 |
190/4 Research Seminar: TTh 11-12:30 |
An intensive reading of the works of Samuel Beckett. Please read the paragraph on page 2 of the instructions area of this Announcement of Classes for more details about enrolling in or wait-listing for this course. ...(read more) |
Blanton, C. D.
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Fall 2013 |
166/2 Special Topics: TTh 12:30-2 |
This course will explore inventive ways of engaging the theater text. Students will read from a selection of plays and be expected to give presentations analyzing theme, story, as well as point of view of the playwright. This will be follow...(read more) |
Gotanda, Philip Kan
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Spring 2013 |
114B/1 English Drama from 1603 to 1700 TTh 11-12:30 |
This course will be a survey of some of the best seventeenth-century English drama. We will focus on the plays as plays – as series of actions upon the minds of audiences – and on ones first performed between 1603 and 1642, when the th...(read more) |
No instructor assigned yet. |
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Spring 2013 |
119/1 Literature of the Restoration and the Early 18th Century TTh 12:30-2 |
We will explore the relationship between literature and everyday life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Areas of emphasis include popular periodical literature (England's first advice column, the first "women's m...(read more) |
Picciotto, Joanna M
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Fall 2012 |
114A/1 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) |
No instructor assigned yet. |
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Spring 2012 |
117B/1 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) |
Hass, Robert L.
Hass, Robert |
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Spring 2012 |
117S/1 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) |
Knapp, Jeffrey
Knapp, Jeffrey |
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Spring 2012 |
119/1 Augustan Age: Literature of the Restoration and the Early 18th Century TTh 3:30-5 |
We will explore the relationship between literature and everyday life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Areas of emphasis include popu...(read more) |
Picciotto, Joanna M
Picciotto, Joanna |