ENGL 320 - Shakespearean Genres

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2012 and alternate years

Prerequisites: ENGL 299. 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.