English 241: Shakespeare's Plays

COURSE SCHEDULE:

Week 1	Introduction to the Course and Shakespeare's Life
	Shakespeare Alive, Chapter 12, "English as a Foreign Language"
Week 2	A Midsummer's Night's Dream
	SA, Ch. 1, "One Day at a Time: What Daily Life was Like"
Week 3	A Midsummer's Night's Dream
	SA, Ch. 2, "Order in the Court, The Renaissance"
Week 4	Romeo and Juliet
	SA, Ch. 3, "Elizabethan Star Wars, Superstition and the Supernatural"
Week 5	Romeo and Juliet
	SA, Ch. 4, "Don't Talk to Strangers: Foreigners and Immigrants in England"
Week 6	Henry IV, Part 1
	SA, Ch. 5, "Like a Virgin: Queen Elizabeth and the Status of Women"
Week 7	Henry IV, Part 1
	SA, Ch. 6, "The Ties that Bind: Family Life"
Week 8	Midsemester Exam
Week 9	Spring Break
Week 10	Henry V
	SA, Ch. 7, "The Revolution of 1576: The Theatre is Born"
Week 11	Henry V
	SA, Ch. 8, "In Good Company: The Sixteenth-Century Acting Companies"
Week 12	Othello
	SA, Ch. 9, "Getting Their Acts Together: Playwright and Audience"
Week 13	Othello
	SA, Ch. 10, "From Page to Stage: Producing a Play in the Sixteenth Century"
Week 14	King Lear
	SA, Ch. 11, "Sources and Resources"
Week 15	King Lear
	SA, Ch. 13, "Shakespeare Alive?"
Week 16	Final Exam