76 247 - Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances

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Carnegie Mellon University

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Would coming to college and not studying Shakespeare seem like going to the Sistine Chapel and not looking up? Fear not, there's still time for an introductory course like this one on ?the Bard.? Our reading list will include famous and exuberant plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. Othello, a tragedy, will help us give focused attention to questions of genre by way of counterpoint. Plots, jokes, conventions, and contexts?we?ll discuss them all. Students at the end of the course should expect to have a good grounding in the language, themes, and characters of Shakespearean comedy and romance?it?ll come in handy sometime, surely?and perhaps more importantly be equipped to think carefully about Shakespeare's plays in relation to poetics, history, politics, and genre. In addition to regular short writing exercises of varying types, assignments will include one close reading paper, a longer research paper, and performance of a scene.

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9.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.cmu.edu/

Phone Number:

(412) 268-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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