EN 4513/6513 Shakespeare
Gregory Bentley
TTh 8:00 - 9:15

This course will focus on a selection of works from the second half of Shakespeare's literary career (approx. 1599-1613). We will approach the texts in a variety of ways: (1) close analysis and explication of individual works; (2) discussion of a text as an example of one of the three major genres--comedy, tragedy, romance--that Shakespeare was primarily working in during this period; (3) focus on the work's relationship to contemporary Elizabethan and Jacobean social, religious, political, and economic issues.

Text: The Riverside Shakespeare. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans, et. al. 2nd Ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Ariel and Caliban (detail) by David Scott