Fall 2016
ENG 663: Shakespeare Seminar
Text: The Complete Pelican Shakespeare, ed. Stephen Orgel
Shakespearean Romance. Our focus will be on the romance genre. We will read romantic comedies and the romances (or tragic-comedies) Shakespeare wrote at the end of his career. The course will also include two tragedies which might be described as romantic tragedies. The following is a tentative list of plays to be covered:
- The Menaechmi, by Plautus
- Comedy of Errors
- The Taming of the the Shrew
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- As You Like It
- Twelfth Night
- Romeo and Juliet
- King Lear
- Pericles
- Cymbeline
- The Winter's Tale
- The Tempest