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 some classes exploring the plays from the perspective of actors and directors as well as literary critics. 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. Use of other texts must be checked by me since they all vary significantly. The Othello and Macbeth plays are contained in a 4 play volume. Please bear this in mind.