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Academic Catalog 2019-2020 
    
Academic Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

LALW423 Shakespeare and Identity:Race, Religion, Gender, and Sexuality On the Elizabethan Stage 3cr


It seems today as if conversations about
identity, social prejudice, and social justice
are at the center of our public discourse.
Perhaps they always were. This course considers
identity in the Age of Shakespeare. In eight
English plays (mostly though not exclusively by
Shakespeare), students encounter provocative
treatments of race (Titus Andronicus, Othello,
The Tempest), religion (The Jew of Malta, The
Merchant of Venice) and gender/sexuality (Edward
II, Twelfth Night, The Roaring Girl).
Supplementary readings include poems, essays, and
treatises from the classical era and the late
Renaissance. Written assignments include one
critical paper and a final project combining
writing and artwork, in which students design and
describe their own production of one of the plays
studied. [Formerly titled Shakespeare and the
Other]

Prerequisites: LALW-200

Seminar

Fall and Spring