ENG216 — Minoritized Charac Shakespeare
Introduces the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare by focusing on minoritized characters in Shakespeare’s canon: characters different from majority populations in race, religious creed, nation of origin, sexuality and gender, and class. Students will investigate how Shakespeare’s literary canon addresses the political and social issues of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England and Colonial America, and how it relates to political and social issues of the twenty-first century.
Prerequisites: ENG105, ENG106