Introduction to plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Representative tragedies, comedies, histories, and poems are read and analyzed. Poetic and dramatic techniques and the Elizabethan theatre are studied. The course will require critical essays, including a researched paper.

This course offers an in-depth survey of the work of William Shakespeare, plausiblyregarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Students will examine a range of Shakespeares works, from early plays heavily influenced by classical models through his great comedies and tragedies to his late romances. The course will consider these works in the context of political, religious, and cultural issues of Shakespeares time and in light of particular thematic concerns recurring in Shakespeares work. We will analyze the plays both as dramatic works intended to be performed and as literary productions that reward careful close reading.

This course provides careful, in-depth readings from Shakespeare's tragedies, histories and comedies. The course examines some of the main characteristics of his work, including his major themes, the development of character and plot, and the special worlds that he creates through his poetic language.

4 hours; 4 creditsThis course explores a range of Shakespeare's plays representing the histories, comedies, and tragedies, with attention to cultural and historical contexts; discussion topics may include the plays' treatment of bodies, gender, sexuality, race, class, political power, the environment, and theater history.Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 [1.7]; co-requisite: ENGL. 1012.

Early and middle comedies, major histories, early tragedies, poems, and sonnets.

Representative works from across the spectrum of Shakespeare's career. The course is designed to introduce students to Shakespeare's language, interests, visions, and styles and to give them a sense of his historical context. For English majors and minors, this is designated as an ENH literature course.(literature).

CBA Credit CC - Liberal Arts

Elective Credit

In this course students will examine Shakespeare's life within the cultural and political influences of his age and trace the evolution of the playwright's career through close study of selected Shakespearean histories, comedies, and tragedies. Students will be encouraged to attend performances and/or view videotapes of his plays. Development of the students' ability to read and understand the Shakespearean play within the genre of drama is a primary objective of the course. Students will write short papers and complete one research project using print and on-line resources. Upon completion of this writing-intensive course, students will have gained an in-depth understanding of the playwright, his works, and the time and place in which he lived and wrote.

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Shakespeare's plays are engaged with the complexities of his time, and they also speak to ours. Working with a selection of plays, students will develop skills in the close reading of early-modern drama, learning how character, language, and dramatic form (tragedy, comedy, history, romance) shape meaning. They will analyze the intellectual, moral, social and political issues that Shakespeare explores, especially those involving justice, governance, the family, race, and gender. Because Shakespeare wrote his plays for performance, students will also analyze them as scripts by watching films and through their own performance.

Satisfies Flexible Core - Creative Expression

This survey course examines a selection of Shakespeare's writings. It also looks at renaissance social, intellectual, and cultural contexts in order to help students understand Shakespeare's world. The course concentrates on various sonnets or poems and a representative selection of plays from the history plays, comedies, problem plays, tragedies, and romances. Whenever possible, through visits to the theatres or film viewing, students are introduced to the living Shakespeare.CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-World Cultures & Global Issues

Shakespeares plays, exploring language, genre, structure, and historical contexts. Attention to films, stage recordings, and contemporary novels or graphic novels.Note: This course satisfies either Creative Expression or College Option requirement in the CUNY 2013 Gen Ed requirements at Lehman.

The course will examine works by Shakespeare and his influences from the Renaissance to the present. Students explore a variety of adaptations of Shakespeares works from a global perspective and connect his works to the cultural and political context of his literary descendants. Students also study adaptations of multiple genres, including novels, film, and music that reinterpret or reimagine Shakespeares works, paying close attention to the ways in which those reinterpretations and adaptations reflect traditions and changes in the historical, social, cultural and political context of the respective environments. Students will examine Shakespeares works alongside respective adaptations ranging from Africa, the Americas, Asia to the Caribbean.

The literature of England from Anglo-Saxon times through the eighteenth century. Exams and essays based on readings.SATISFIES FLEXIBLE CORE- WORLD CULTURES & GLOBAL ISSUES

A basic course in Shakespeare's plays and poems. Designed for nonmajors.

This course provides a study of selected plays and poetry, including attention to Shakespeares language and performative art, from a literary, cultural, and historical perspective. Connections will be made between particular themes and how they resonate and shed light on our world today.

Elective Credit

Elective Credit

Selected reading of the major plays and poems.