ENGL 4405 Shakespeare

Survey of Shakespeare's major dramatic works, including poetry.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

2000-level ENGL course with a grade of "C" or better.

Typically Offered

Demorest Campus: every other fall day

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Use standard critical methods for studying various works by Shakespeare.
2. Integrate textual evidence into written and oral expression and examine divergent perspectives and approaches to literary interpretation.
3. Investigate the historical scholarship, rhetorical elements of literary production, and the range of literary forms used by Shakespeare.
4. Analyze the social, political, and cultural factors that influenced the formation of these texts.
5. Consider oral presentation of verse drama, performance and stagecraft, rhetoric and poetics, and analysis of character, theme, and POV, as well as production issues and textual problems raised by plays that were meant for the stage rather than for the reader.