***PLEASE NOTE that this course is not actually being offered during the fall semester of 2021 (110-1). Due to insufficiencies in the course description platform and/or its utilization, as well as the apparent failure of university regulations to reflect the actual needs of the university's various programs, this summer course is being listed for this fall term even though it is clearly not going to be offered at this time. It is a summer course, and registration for it was closed even before the instructor was forced (by the aforementioned regulations) to input this course description into the system. The instructor apologizes for any inconvenience or misunderstanding that this may cause.***

first meeting: introduction to course; introduction to Shakespeare; Shakespeare’s sonnets; reference materials

second and third meeting: Romeo and Juliet Acts I-II; comedy vs. tragedy; verse vs. prose; reading wholes

fourth and fifth meeting: Romeo and Juliet Acts III-V; reading dialogue; pair work; writing dialogue; themes of race and prejudice

sixth and seventh meeting: Twelfth Night Acts I-II; analyzing Shakespeare’s language; grammar and relations of ideas

eighth and ninth meeting: Twelfth Night Acts III-V; rhetorical tropes and schemes; crafting and developing longer pieces

tenth and eleventh meeting: Henry IV, Part One Acts I-II; public speaking; argumentation and refutation; logic

twelfth and thirteenth meeting: Henry IV, Part One Acts III-V; history plays; definitions of history; reading motivations

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***PLEASE NOTE that this course is not actually being offered during the fall semester of 2021 (110-1). Due to insufficiencies in the course description platform and/or its utilization, as well as the apparent failure of university regulations to reflect the actual needs of the university's various programs, this summer course is being listed for this fall term even though it is clearly not going to be offered at this time. It is a summer course, and registration for it was closed even before the instructor was forced (by the aforementioned regulations) to input this course description into the system. The instructor apologizes for any inconvenience or misunderstanding that this may cause.***

Students will be expected to read a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets and excerpts from seven of his plays (specified below). Attendance is mandatory. Grades will be based on the following three writing assignments, which can be completed in any order but must be handed in on the dates specified in the final syllabus (to be handed out in the first class meeting):

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  a creative work based on a model from one of Shakespeare's works covered in class

  
  


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  a four- to five-page critical paper on linguistic or literary aspects of one of Shakespeare's works covered in class

  
  


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  a class plan that incorporates part of one of Shakespeare's works into a language curriculum

  
  

***PLEASE NOTE that this course is not actually being offered during the fall semester of 2021 (110-1). Due to insufficiencies in the course description platform and/or its utilization, as well as the apparent failure of university regulations to reflect the actual needs of the university's various programs, this summer course is being listed for this fall term even though it is clearly not going to be offered at this time. It is a summer course, and registration for it was closed even before the instructor was forced (by the aforementioned regulations) to input this course description into the system. The instructor apologizes for any inconvenience or misunderstanding that this may cause.***

Materials will be made available for students by the instructor.

Alternatively, students may choose to use some of the following editions of Shakespeare’s works:

Royal Shakespeare Company, William Shakespeare: Complete Works

The Norton Shakespeare

Arden, Oxford, or New Cambridge editions of individual plays

Recommended reading: Russ McDonald, _The Bedford Comapnion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents_