Through a close reading of five key plays (Romeo and Juliet, 1595/6; Twelfth Night, 1600/1; Othello, 1604/5; The Winter's Tale, 1610/1, The Tempest, 1611) students will explore Shakespeare’s relationship with dramatic form, learning to identify the foundations and evolutio

In "Literature and Environment" we will study texts that are acknowledged as environmental literature and also we will also develop an eco-critical sensibility that enables us to read all literature from an environmentally conscious point of view. Over the semester we will learn a vocabulary of crit