LI 372 - Shakespearean Comedy

Credits: 4 credits

Offers an in-depth look at some of Shakespeare’s best-known “festive comedies,” “romantic comedies,” “city comedies” and “dark comedies,” including Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, and The Taming of the Shrew. Through a variety of critical approaches, it addresses key themes such as courtship and marriage; disguise, disorder, and deception: and what constitutes comic action and solution. Emphasizing Shakespeare’s development of the comic form, this course also examines the dramatist’s continued ability (or not) to make audiences laugh through an examination of the plays’ adoption in a global, mixed-media context. Prerequisites: One 200 level LI course, TH 215, TH216. (Spring)