Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances (Pre-1800)

Close analysis and appreciation of the development of Shakespeare’s comic vision of courtship, love, and marriage, from his earliest comedies, The Comedy of Errors, Taming of the Shrew, and Midsummer Night’s Dream, through the major comedies, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night, to the final romances, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest.

3 hrs. lect./3 hrs. disc./screen.