English (ENGL) 1
English (ENGL) 1 ENGL 1009 (c, FYS) The Ravages of Love ENGLISH (ENGL) Non-Standard Rotation. Enrollment limit: 16. ENGL 1003 (c) Shakespeare's Afterlives Examines examples of overwhelming love in eighteenth and nineteenth Non-Standard Rotation. Enrollment limit: 16. century novels from England, France, and Germany. Through close reading and intensive writing, considers the intersection of love with Romeo and Juliet as garden gnomes, Richard III as Adolf Hitler, King Lear the difficulties created by class and gender difference; the power of as aging patriarch of an Iowa family farm...these are just some of the desire to challenge social convention and the terms of ordinary reality; ways that Shakespeare’s plays and characters have been reimagined in the confrontations between love, egotism, and seduction; and the literature produced in the time since he lived and wrote for the London implications of love’s attempt to dare all, even at the risk of death. stage. Placing individual plays by Shakespeare in conversation with Discusses the political overtones of these narratives of love and their particular adaptations, we examine the aesthetic, cultural, and political place within the construction of gender, sexuality and subjectivity in dimensions of Shakespearean drama and his literary and cultural legacy Western culture. Authors may include Prevost, Goethe, Laclos, Hays, as found in later fiction, drama, and film. Plays by Shakespeare may Austen, Bronte, and Flaubert. (Same as: GSWS 1009) include 1 Henry IV, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest, together with adaptations by Oscar Wilde, Tom Stoppard, Jane Smiley, Previous terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2017.
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