Contact Information

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Instructor: Dr. Lilly Berberyan

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (318) 357-4236

Office: Kyser 316M

Office Hours:

In-Person: MW, 2-4PM

Virtual: 10AM-4PM (by appointment)

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📜 Course Description

ENGL 6110 is an intensive study of Shakespeare's writing. We will read Shakespeare's writing along with the scholarly and critical work it has inspired and consider how Shakespearean writing can be regarded as culturally produced and culturally productive; how his works have been read and examined across time and space, both within his culture and our own; finally, we will study how recent scholarly work--including materialist, queer, race, and feminist--has engaged with Shakespeare's texts.

📚 Required Texts

• Norton Shakespeare, Edited by Stephen Greenblatt et al. 3rd edition, 2 volume set. ISBN: 978-0-393-93857-9
• Russ McDonald, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents, Second Edition. ISBN: 978-0-312-24880-2

In addition to the texts above, I will post additional texts on Moodle as PDFs.

Notes re: texts:

• You can save money by purchasing an older edition of the Norton Shakespeare or a different collection of Shakespeare's works, but please make sure that it is a scholarly edition, with notes and annotations. Some good editions include: Folger Shakespeare, Arden Shakespeare, Pelican Shakespeare, and Riverside Shakespeare. If you have questions about a specific edition, please email me.
• The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare will help you gain a better understanding of Shakespeare and the historical period within which Shakespeare writes. While I have assigned specific chapters for given week, I'd advise you to read the text in its entirety as quickly as possible: it is an easy read and it will help you have a firmer grasp on Shakespeare right away.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this course will be able to:

• Develop knowledge of Shakespeare's writings and scholarship related to Shakespeare
• Demonstrate orally, in writing, or by some other means a fundamental ability to use some of the techniques and/or methods of literary analysis
• Identify and/ or describe some of the various social, historical, cultural, and/or theoretical contexts in which literary texts have been written and interpreted
• Apply theoretical texts in the development of textual interpretation and analysis
• Demonstrate advanced research and synthesis skills by locating, evaluating, and critiquing relevant sources