ENGL3007

From Taylor Swift to Greta Gerwig, from Toni Morrison to Nelson Mandela, Shakespeare's works have continued to influence and inspire authors, artists, and audiences around the globe. In this upper division course you will study representative works of Shakespeare from a variety of cultural perspectives, as texts that have had a long and enduring vitality well beyond their historical context. This course tracks the history of Shakespeare?s plays across time, in various artistic forms including art, music, film, and social media, looking at the ways these literary works have responded to issues of gender, race, sexuality, religion, disability, and class.English majors/minors must take this course A-F only grading basis.

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