ENGL 218 - Shakespeare and the Limits of Genre: Problem Comedy and Romance

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
This class will study Shakespeare’s most inscrutable plays: the disturbing “problem comedies” - All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and Merchant of Venice ; and the dazzling “romances” Pericles, Cymbeline , and The Winter’s Tale. In both tragicomic modes, Shakespeare experiments with the limits of genre: crafting “happy endings” to plays that resist them, and thereby speculating on the nature of dramatic representation and fiction-making itself. British, Pre-1700.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200 Level Courses.”