Prerequisite: 3 hours of literature 

Activities: Reading and analysis of representative comedies, tragedies, histories and poems by Shakespeare, with special consideration of his life and the historical context. 

Dr. Cunningham's interpretation of the catalogue description:   
Basically, we will be working on understanding plays that are some of the most significant literary and dramatic works in our culture.  We will attempt to understand the plays as individual plays, as works in the modes of comedy, tragedy, romance, and satire.  We will look at the chronological of composition, the historical and sociological events and climates of the time, the political and religious situations that are a part of the intellectual milieu of the plays themselves. We will study Shakespearean biography and Shakespeare as the spirit of an age.