ENGL 308 - Sexualities in Shakespearean Poetry and Drama

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR

Shakespeare’s works profoundly and poetically, seriously and comically, materially and symbolically critique and celebrate multiple types of sexuality, eroticism, and sexual experience. We will employ varied theories and methods for studying these sexualities, including ways for queering the early modern period. We’ll also consider how performance choices inflect intepretations of sexual expression. Works include “Rape of Lucrece,” selected sonnets, Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and either Titus Andronicus, or Coriolanus. British, Diversity, Pre-1700. Enrollment limit: 25.
Instructor: P. Gorfain
Prerequisites & Notes

Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.