ENG 315 - Shakespeare I

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing; ENG 211WI.
This course examines the career of William Shakespeare beginning with the early comedies, and continuing through the history plays and tragedies to the late romances. The following themes, motifs, and conventions may be explored: the meaning of dramatized locations; the value of role playing; the process of sexual maturation and identity; political legitimacy; the disruptive force of ego assertion; genre as a symbolic and social form.