H28.0700 Seminar 4 Credits
Instructor(s): Laura Levine
Although attempts will be made to locate Shakespeare within a few of his various “contexts,” and to look at Shakespeare on film, the primary focus of this course will be an extremely close reading of five or six plays -- on developing, through many detailed writing exercises, the ability to recognize interpretive choices within the text and articulate strategies for working on them. This is a writing intensive course. Probable topics will include attitudes toward “cultural others,” anxieties about gender, problems of knowledge, ambivalence about war and use of sources. Students are expected to hold the hour before class for small group meetings, conferences and other kinds of occasional work.
