Literary Genre: Shakespeare

(Optional)

Course No. OTLGSH

Semesters: 1; Credits: ½

Prerequisite: None

The student is actively engaged in relating Shakespeare to art, music, and writing. Active learning is emphasized, capitalizing on personal interests and talents of set designing, costuming, and acting. Students will read the plays and sonnets as archetypal of the human condition. Special attention focuses on the sonnets and these plays: Hamlet, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night. Students will be encouraged to acquire additional reading materials for this class.