The class format will be based primarily on discussion with occasional lectures. Grades will be based on participation, reading responses, several tests, and at least one paper. Students with only one 200-level lit course may be allowed to enroll, but only by obtaining explicit permission from the instructor of the course. This course is designed to strengthen students' understanding of Shakespeare's language and his dramatic art, partly by considering his plays as scripts for performance. Discussing and performing scenes from his plays and watching videotapes will help students appreciate the plays as performance texts.
Evaluation includes class discussion, scene work, and papers.
We will study this Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary literature in historical context, examining its place in literary and political discourse and learning the conventions and concerns of the time. In particular, we will analyze and compare the ways these works discuss several central questions of the era. Course requirements include participation in discussion, papers, a presentation, a midterm, and a final. We will be considering various kinds of fiction making in Hemingway' life and work and in the posthumous continuation of his product. Student reports will be a major element of all class meetings.