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Apr 23, 2024
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ENGL 111 SC - Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories
This course sets histories from Shakespeare’s two tetralogies alongside early and late comedies including The Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure, focusing on aspects of the plays that resist easy generic categorization. We will consider the complicated relationship between historical fact and historical drama, exploring the challenges and opportunities that Shakespeare faced in putting figures from the distant and the recent past on the early modern stage. In analyzing his range of comic modes, moreover, we will observe that farce and witty word-play go hand in hand with incisive social commentary that is often not very funny at all.
Course Credit: 1.0
Offered: Every other year
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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