ENGL 883 - Shakespeare,in England and America

Institution:

Trinity College

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Description:

This course will involve close reading of selected Shakespeare comedies, tragedies, and history plays. We will pay attention to the internal sturcture of the plays, to generic differences between comedies, tragedies, and histories, and to nuances of language, while also considering the plays within the context of the Renaissance culture. We will examine cultural contexts largely by looking at how issues framed thematiclly within the texts interface with issues of the 1590s and early 1600s. We will also pay attention to production histories of selected plays and to modern filmic representations of some plays. American Studies students taking this course will focus on Shakespeare in America, i.e. they will trace production histories of the plays we study through the 19th and 20th centuries in America. Toward this end we will study the shift in cultural focus of Shakespeare from "lowbrow" to "highbrow." This course satisfies the requirement of an author-centered, literary theory, or cultural contexts course. Also listed under American Studies Graduate Program. 1.00 units, Seminar

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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