English 310 - Shakespeare and the Company He Keeps

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Wheaton College - Massachusetts

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Description:

Focusing on Shakespeare's poetry and plays and the sources he used as well as the social and cultural contexts that produced them, this course looks, too, at the dramatic responses the Bard's work provokes. We'll read, for instance,Shakespeare's "English" sonnet and compare it tsome of Sidney's Petrarchan sonnets. We'll read Hamlet, King Lear, and Henry V, Othello, As You Like It and Twelfth Night, among others, to understand the ideas and conventions of thought and bias among the early modern English literary and playgoing culture. Using documents contemporary with Shakespeare's writing, we'll see how Shakespeare'ideas are perhaps unoriginal, and how his inventions, experiments and riffs are extraordinary. (Katherine Conway)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wheatoncollege.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 285-7722

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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