ENG 347 SHAKESPEARE: TRAGEDY/HISTORY

Speaking What We Feel: Shakespeare's Tragedies and Histories.  Shakespeare's tragedies and histories break conventions and leave raw ends. Amid crumbling social structures such as divinely sanctioned kingship, primogeniture, and hierarchical marriage, Shakespeare finds theatrical and poetic opportunity. Readings include Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Part 1, Henry V, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.