ENGL 320 - Shakespearean Genres

FDR: HL, GE3
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years

Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English.In a given term, this course focuses on one or two of the major genres explored by Shakespeare (e.g., histories, tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies/romances, lyric and narrative poetry), in light of Renaissance literary conventions and recent theoretical approaches. Students consider the ways in which Shakespeare’s generic experiments are variably inflected by gender, by political considerations, by habitat, and by history.Pickett.