EN225 - Introduction to Shakespeare

An introduction to Shakespeare’s dramatic works through four to seven representative plays Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement.

Degree requirement — Critical Learning: AIM, Equity and Power: EPG

1 unit — Love

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In Block B this summer EN 250 takes students to the World Shakespeare Festival in London to think about the place of the stage--in our world and in the world of Shakespeare's England? Are players merely players (in Shakespeare’s time and ours)? What is the place of Shakespeare in the globalized, socially-mediatied, necessarily international world of today?
Shakespeare
"Is the play still the thing?"

“All the world’s a stage,” laments Jacques in As You Like It. “And the men and women merely players.” It’s a statement that presents us with the idea of the world as a stage. It presents us with the question of the place of t