Department of English

Shakespeare wrote his plays over 400 years ago, and his characters continue to live on the page and stage, in film and other media today, embodying issues that remain vitally relevant in our world today. In studying a number of his plays, we will explore the richness of his language, analyze the characters in light of their social situations and stage conventions, and understand the issues the plays present within their cultural/historical contexts as a basis for comparison with our times. In doing so, we will focus in particular on the ways in which these plays work through conflicts to resolution, or the lack thereof, as a vehicle for reflecting on our own ways of addressing conflict on local and global scales.

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