Being behind on the reading will adversely affect your participation grade. Since Shakespeare was primarily a playwright, we will be considering his work as drama, albeit rich and poetic drama. We will thus spend several classes exploring the plays from the perspective of actors and directors. Everyone will participate in these experiments and will be graded on the degree of involvement both intellectually and physically. These grades will not reflect acting talent or experience, neither of which are necessary for this course.
Papers are to be delivered on time.
You will spend the rest of your life meeting deadlines of one kind or another, so consider this fitting training. I will only accept late papers if they come with a suitable, documented explanation, in which category being busy for other classes or otherwise stressed out does not apply. Any other editions which you may have, particularly collected editions, must be approved by me. Please bear this in mind. It happens every semester and is often surprisingly easy to detect and prove.