ENGL 711 - SHAKESPEARE AND RENAISSANCE IDEAS

3 Credit Hour(s)
This course explores Shakespeare’s treatment of six concepts of human learning and perfectibility basic to the humanities: concepts of education, art, ambition, honor, love and immortality. Seminar discussions draw upon the classical and Renaissance humanistic traditions which informed Shakespeare’s artistic and intellectual milieu; the discussions focus upon the concepts as they appear in Shakespeare’s sonnets and in a variety of his plays including Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. Three hours of seminar.