ENGL 247 Global Shakespeares

Prerequisite: English Composition Core or permission of instructor
This course explores the ways that Shakespeare and his plays fit into the broader world. In the first half of the course, we’ll read and watch Shakespeare alongside the diverse voices of the “global renaissance,” including India, the New World, and the Middle East, focusing on how real-life cultural encounters made their way onto the early modern English stage. In the second half of the course, we’ll shift our thinking to the many ways Shakespeare remains part of global culture today, considering issues of colonialism and cultural appropriation as we learn how and why Shakespeare’s plays are read, taught, and performed around the world.

Credits

3.0

Core

Developing Informed Viewpoints

Offered

Offered As Needed